29 Facts About Nathan Lewin

Nathan Lewin was born on January 31,1936 and is an American attorney who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Nathan Lewin's family fled Poland before the Nazi invasion in 1939.

Nathan Lewin arrived in the United States from Japan in 1941.

Nathan Lewin served as Deputy Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs at the Department of State.

Nathan Lewin later served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

Nathan Lewin was on the federal prosecution team of the murderers of the three civil-rights workers in Mississippi.

Nathan Lewin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, all federal appellate circuits, and many United States District Courts.

Nathan Lewin has argued orally and filed briefs before every federal appellate circuit and has presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court in 28 cases.

Nathan Lewin has practiced law in the District of Columbia, New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, all federal appellate circuits, and many United States District Courts.

Nathan Lewin has engaged in trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts for more than 45 years.

Nathan Lewin was recognized by the DC Legal Times as one of "Washington's Greatest Lawyers of the Past 30 Years" and was ranked Number 2 of Washington's Best Lawyers by the Washingtonian.

Nathan Lewin has been voted one of America's Best Lawyers for 30 years, and was included in the 2019 edition of that volume in four distinct practice categories, including Appellate Litigation, Defense of White-Collar Crime, and First Amendment Litigation.

Nathan Lewin has been a champion in advocating for First Amendment rights and civil liberties.

Nathan Lewin has successfully argued many cases involving the right to display the Chanukah menorah in a public forum, including two such cases before en banc courts of the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits.

Nathan Lewin represented an Air Force psychologist in the Supreme Court case testing his constitutional right to wear a yarmulke while wearing a military uniform.

In 1976, Nathan Lewin represented the Hasidic community of Williamsburg in the Supreme Court, in its constitutional challenge to a racially conscious legislative reapportionment, urging a rule of constitutional law that the Supreme Court accepted 20 years later.

Nathan Lewin was the attorney for the Satmar Kiryas Joel school for handicapped children in Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v Grumet, a case in defense of a law creating a special public school district for handicapped children in that community, which was heard by the Supreme Court in 1994.

Nathan Lewin conceded he submitted a picture of Baruch Herzfeld dancing with a non-Jewish woman to an Orthodox rabbinical court as part of his case against him, but insists it was "a minor detail of the case".

In 2014 and 2015, Nathan Lewin represented Binyamin Stimler, a member of the New York divorce coercion gang whose purpose was the kidnap and torture of Jewish men in order to force them into granting religious divorces to their wives.

Nathan Lewin is currently representing Mike Lindell and My Pillow, defendants in a $1.3 billion lawsuit brought by US Dominion, Inc for libel in connection with Lindell's claims that Dominion "stole" the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

Nathan Lewin has taught at many of the nation's top law schools.

Nathan Lewin taught a course in Jewish Civil Law at George Washington University Law School for several years.

Nathan Lewin was president of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists from 1992 to 1997.

Nathan Lewin is currently Honorary President of its successor, the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.

Nathan Lewin represented Sholom Rubashkin in the appeal from his conviction and sentencing to 27 years in jail.

Nathan Lewin served as the Justice Department's special counsel in the deportation case against Valerian Trifa who had led the Iron Guard in Nazi-occupied Romania.

Nathan Lewin is married to Rikki Gordon, with whom he has two daughters, Alyza Doba and Na'ama Batya.

Nathan Lewin has written numerous articles on American jurisprudence, politics, and religion.

Nathan Lewin was an author and Contributing Editor to The New Republic between 1970 and 1991.