Judge Douglas Ginsburg
District of Columbia U.S. District Court
Douglas Howard Ginsburg was born in May 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. He earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago School of Law. He clerked at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He became a professor of law at Harvard Law School.
He joined President Reagan’s administration as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He was an adjunct or visiting law professor at the George Mason School of Law, the University of Chicago Law School, and Columbia University Law School, and was a visiting scholar at New York Law School, later becoming a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School and a visiting professor at University College London.
Ginsburg was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate and received his commission in October 1986. He was chief judge for eight years. He assumed senior status in October 2011.
After a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court was left open by the retirement of Justice Lewis Powell, President Reagan nominated Ginsburg to that position. Ginsburg later withdrew his nomination, remaining on the Court of Appeals.
In the News…
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a law that may lead to TikTok being banned next month. The China-based company had appealed the law, claiming it violated the First Amendment.
Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote the court’s opinion, stating, “The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States. Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the “decision is an important step in blocking the Chinese government from weaponizing TikTok.”
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The Honorable Douglas Ginsburg
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
