1. Randolph Daniel Moss was born on April 27,1961 and is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
11 Facts About Randolph Moss
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Randolph Moss received a Juris Doctor in 1986 from Yale Law School.
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Randolph Moss began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N Leval of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1986 to 1987, and then served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court, from 1988 to 1989.
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Randolph Moss served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, from 1996 to 1998, Acting Assistant Attorney General, from 1998 to 2000, and as Assistant Attorney General, from 2000 to 2001.
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In 2000, when Moss was an assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, he wrote the memorandum opinion advising that the Department could not indict a sitting president.
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Randolph Moss received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on May 20,2014.
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Randolph Moss received his judicial commission on November 14,2014.
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In May 2016, Randolph Moss found that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act prevented an Ethiopian dissident living under asylum in the United States from suing the Ethiopian government for infecting his home computer with FinSpy spyware and then surveilling him in Maryland.
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On October 16,2018, Randolph Moss ruled against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after she stopped an Obama-era rule from taking effect which protected students against fraud from for-profit colleges.
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On December 26,2020, Randolph Moss ruled that the United States Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row.
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On July 19,2021, Randolph Moss sentenced Paul Hodgkins, a Florida man who participated in the 2021 United States Capitol attack to eight months in prison.