Harry Litman is a senior legal columnist at The New Republic, a senior fellow at the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and the creator of Talking Feds, a Substack and podcast on legal and political issues. A lawyer, professor, and legal commentator, he is the former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and has served as a deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice. He clerked for Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Anthony Kennedy, and has taught at UCLA School of Law and UC San Diego. He is also a former legal affairs columnist at The Los Angeles Times.
