Justin Levitt

Justin Levitt

Democracy, Counsel 

Mr. Levitt works on election administration, redistricting, and a variety of other voting rights concerns. He has worked in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including most recently as the National Voter Protection Counsel helping to run an unprecedented effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. He has also served as in-house counsel to America Coming Together, the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and worked at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations. He is a frequent public speaker, with frequently-cited scholarship and public commentary on election issues. Mr. Levitt clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and holds an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. He is admitted to the bar in California, New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia, and to the U.S. District Courts in the C.D. California and N.D. Florida.

 

Commentary & Analysis

"Supreme Court Preview: The Most Important Elections Case Since Bush v. Gore" ACS Blog (01/09/08)
"Selling Voter ID Law Is Like Selling Snake Oil" Morning Call (01/09/08)
"Voter Fraud Fixation Needs a Good Airing" (PDF) Atlanta Journal-Constitution (06/13/07)
"When Prosecuters Get Political" The Nation (06/06/07)
"The Myth of Voter Fraud" (with Michael Waldman) Washington Post (03/29/07)

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