61 Facts About Mark Levin

Mark Reed Levin is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality.

Mark Levin is the former president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a New York Times best-selling author of seven books, and contributes commentary to media outlets such as National Review Online.

Since 2015, Mark Levin has been editor-in-chief of the Conservative Review and is known for his incendiary commentary.

Mark Levin has been described as "right-wing" by The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and Politico.

Mark Levin is known for his strident criticisms of Democrats and encouragement of primary challenges to congressional Republicans that he considers to be "Republican In Name Only".

Mark Levin endorsed Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and declared himself "Never Trump", but reluctantly endorsed Donald Trump after he won the Republican nomination.

Since the start of the Trump presidency, Mark Levin's commentary has become strongly pro-Trump.

Mark Levin graduated from Cheltenham High School after three years, in 1974.

Later in 1977, Mark Levin won election to the Cheltenham school board on a platform of reducing property taxes.

In 1980, Mark Levin earned a JD from Temple University School of Law.

Mark Levin began at ACTION, the federal agency that oversaw VISTA and other volunteer agencies, before serving as deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the US Department of Education and deputy solicitor of the US Department of the Interior.

Mark Levin ultimately became chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese.

In 1991, Levin joined public interest law firm Landmark Legal Foundation.

At Landmark, Levin served as director of legal policy and the foundation's Washington-based Center for Civil Rights before becoming president in 1997.

Politico reported in 2014 that Levin received a salary of more than $300,000 per year as president of the non-profit Landmark Legal Foundation, whose donors include the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Charles G Koch Charitable Foundation and ExxonMobil.

In 2018, Levin stepped down as president of Landmark Legal but remained on its board of directors.

Mark Levin began his broadcasting career as a guest on conservative talk radio programs.

Cumulus Media Networks began syndicating The Mark Levin Show nationally in 2006.

Mark Levin has participated in Freedom Concerts, an annual benefit concert to aid families of fallen soldiers, and uses his radio program to promote aid to military families.

Mark Levin is involved with Move America Forward, a charity that sends care packages to soldiers serving overseas.

On February 11,2016, Mark Levin signed a ten-year contract extension with Westwood One, which will take his show through 2025, its 19th year.

Since 2014, Mark Levin has been the founding editor-in-chief of Conservative Review, a multi-platform online television network that later merged with Glenn Beck's terrestrial network TheBlaze in 2018 to form Blaze Media.

Programs airing on the network include Mark Levin, Roaming Millennial, Truth Be Told, Allie, In the Woods with Phil, Kibbe on Liberty, Louder with Crowder, America Bolling, and more.

Mark Levin wrote the 2005 book Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America, in which he advanced his thesis that activist judges on the Supreme Court have "legislated from the bench".

Commentary magazine's Dan Seligman wrote that Mark Levin asks readers "to identify with 'originalists' who look to the text of the Constitution and the intent of its framers, and to reject the 'activists' who construe the Constitution broadly and are more concerned with getting to their own 'desired outcomes'".

The book includes discussion of issues Mark Levin believes need to be addressed in the United States.

Also in The Washington Times, Richard W Rahn wrote, "If The Liberty Amendments can help foster a national debate about which corrective actions, including constitutional amendments, are needed to increase liberty and prosperity, Mr Levin will have performed a great national service".

Hoover Institution fellow David Davenport wrote in Forbes that Mark Levin's book used "weak arguments".

In 2021, Mark Levin published American Marxism, a book written in reaction to the events that have transpired so far in 2021 and seeks to characterize the Marxist attributes of the American Left.

Mark Levin has stated that "Nancy Pelosi's politics comes as close to a form of modern-day fascism as I've ever seen".

Mark Levin said the new Congressional Speaker had "hijacked" the federal government by deciding to block the financing of President Trump's border wall.

Mark Levin endorsed Orrin Hatch when he faced a primary challenge in 2012, but later apologized for his endorsement when Hatch said that he would be willing to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Mark Levin supported the Tea Party Patriots' campaign to "fire" House Speaker John Boehner.

Mark Levin has referred to Mitt Romney as an "ass" and called CNN host Brian Stelter a "creep".

Mark Levin supported US Representative Mo Brooks in his campaign in the 2017 Alabama special election against incumbent Luther Strange, who had received a temporary appointment earlier that year.

Mark Levin strongly defended former EPA head Scott Pruitt while he was under a dozen separate ethics investigations.

Mark Levin did not disclose that the group had made $427,000 of purchases of his book.

Mark Levin endorsed Orrin Hatch when Mark Levin was being sponsored by Americans for Prosperity which endorsed Hatch.

Mark Levin withdrew his endorsement of Hatch when Mark Levin was being sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots.

In 2009, Mark Levin described as "absolutely right" the statement by Sarah Palin that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes death panels to decide whether elderly people or sick children were worthy of medical care.

In 2011, a caller to Mark Levin's show, claiming to be a neurosurgeon, said that the Department of Health and Human Services had issued a document saying that people over age 70 would not be allowed to receive medical treatments.

In late 2013, Mark Levin said there were similarities between a gathering of "hand-picked" supporters of the Affordable Care Act chosen by the Obama administration to Nazi Sturmabteilung or "Brownshirts" drawing comparisons of the propaganda techniques of the two groups.

Mark Levin stated in 2013 that "the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our government" and described President Obama as a Muslim Brotherhood "sympathizer".

Mark Levin speculated in November 2014 that, after the 2014 mid-term elections, Obama might go "full Mussolini".

In 2014, Mark Levin claimed that the Bush administration's original WMD rationale for the Iraq War had been vindicated by citing reports of US soldiers in Iraq that were wounded by the decayed remnants of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons arsenal.

Mark Levin faulted the Bush administration for not doing more to publicize these remnants of Iraq's former WMD program.

In March 2016, Mark Levin endorsed Ted Cruz for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Over a month after Donald Trump was nominated, in September 2016, Mark Levin stated on this radio program that he would vote for Trump in the presidential election, following his declaration earlier that year that he was in the "Never Trump" camp and would never vote for Trump.

In March 2017, Mark Levin alleged that the Obama administration had used "police state" surveillance tactics against the Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

The Associated Press said that Mark Levin "voiced without evidence the idea that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower".

Mark Levin protested the AP report vigorously, demanding a retraction and an apology on the grounds that his sources for the statement included The New York Times and other newspapers.

Mark Levin's statement was reprinted by Breitbart News and reportedly became the basis of President Trump's unfounded Trump Tower wiretapping allegations.

Mark Levin has said that there is a "coup" occurring against the presidency of Donald Trump waged by Obama loyalists.

Shortly thereafter, Trump praised Mark Levin and retweeted more than 20 tweets by viewers praising Mark Levin.

Mark Levin accused Joe Biden of being the one who "did something illegal", though he did not provide evidence or any elaboration.

Mark Levin praised Sidney Powell, a member of Trump's legal team, for what he considered to be her patriotism after she promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and sought to overturn election results.

Mark Levin frequently had guests on his show who led the audience to think Joe Biden's win in the presidential election could be overturned.

On January 5,2021, Mark Levin insisted Congress's imminent counting of the Electoral College votes was an act of "tyranny" because of the supposed fraud.

Mark Levin criticized the Joe Biden administration for its response, which he considered to be lacking, and the isolationists and the "Putin wings" of the media, Democratic Party and the Republican Party, called for the US to arm Taiwan to defend themselves from the Communist China and call off the negotiations with Iran.

Mark Levin suffered a heart attack in 2000 and had open heart surgery.

Mark Levin was married to Kendall Levin; they subsequently divorced.