Ian Millhiser
Policy Analyst and Blogger
Ian Millhiser is a Policy Analyst and Blogger for American Progress, where his work focuses on the Constitution and the judiciary.
Ian previously held the open government portfolio for CAP’s Doing What Works project, and was a Legal Research Analyst with ThinkProgress during the nomination and confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. He also clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and has worked as an attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center’s Federal Rights Project, as assistant director for communications with the American Constitution Society, and as a Teach For America corps member in the Mississippi Delta.
He received a B.A. in philosophy from Kenyon College and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University, where he served as senior note editor on the Duke Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. His writings have appeared in a diversity of legal and mainstream publications, including The Guardian, AOLNews, The American Prospect, Politico, Huffington Post, and the Duke Law Journal. He has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazerra, and Fox Business television, and many radio stations including NPR and the BBC.
Email: imillhiser /@\ americanprogress.org
Articles by Ian Millhiser
- Words Still Matter, Even in the Supreme Court, November 14, 2011
- What If the Tea Party Wins?, September 16, 2011
- The Eleventh Circuit’s Affordable Care Act Decision Cannot Be Squared With The Constitution, August 15, 2011
- Worse Than Lochner, June 3, 2011
- The Goodwin Liu Nomination: Impaired Judgment, June 1, 2011
- The Fake James Madison, May 27, 2011
- Don’t Speak: If You Want to Be a Judge Someday You’d Better Shut Your Mouth, May 20, 2011
- Disqualifying Excellence, May 5, 2011
- Tea Party Edits Founders to Suit Its Own Agenda, February 28, 2011
- The Tenthers Are Coming—and They Don’t Want You to Go to College, February 7, 2011
- Interactive Assessment: Judge Vinson’s Affordable Care Act Decision, February 2, 2011
- Health Reform Will Survive in the Courts, February 1, 2011
- Clearly Constitutional, January 18, 2011
- Déjà Vu All Over Again, January 3, 2011
- The Most Neglected Branch, December 15, 2010
- Health Care Ruling: Good News for Reform Backers, December 13, 2010
- First Monday, October 4, 2010
- The Tyranny of the Timepiece, September 28, 2010
- Infographic: Running Out the Clock, September 28, 2010
- Minority Rules, September 28, 2010
- Ask the Expert: Why Aren't Judicial Nominees Being Confirmed?, August 16, 2010
- What’s Next After Kagan, August 6, 2010
- Living Out The True Meaning of Our Creed , August 6, 2010
- Delaying the Inevitable, August 3, 2010
- Postergando lo Inevitable , August 3, 2010
- Falling Off a Cliff, July 30, 2010
- Doomed to Repeat History, July 19, 2010
- Could Scalia Get Confirmed by Today's Conservatives?, June 28, 2010
- Narrowly Dodged Bullets: John Roberts’s Dissenting Opinions, June 28, 2010
- Halting IT Boondoggles, June 28, 2010
- Executive Privilege 101, June 1, 2010
- A Qualified and Faithful Legal Mind, May 13, 2010
- Experience Comes from More than a Judge’s Robe, May 13, 2010
- A Victory for Equal Justice, May 10, 2010
- A Snail Mail Law in a Digital World , April 26, 2010
- Standing Still as the Ground Shifted Right Under Him, April 9, 2010
- Immigration Nation, April 8, 2010
- If at First You Don’t Succeed, Hope for Activist Judges, March 23, 2010
- Improving Government Efficiency, March 15, 2010
- Closed Eyes, Black Lungs, February 18, 2010
- “Connecting the Dots” Requires a Commitment to IT Infrastructure, January 11, 2010
- The First Stage of an Open Government Revolution, December 11, 2009
- Beyond Sotomayor's Confirmation, August 7, 2009
- Mitos vs. Realidades: Los Ataques Conservadores en Contra de la Jueza Sonia Sotomayor, July 10, 2009
- Ask the Expert: A Judge With Loyalty to the Law, July 9, 2009
- Myth vs. Fact: Conservative Attacks on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, July 8, 2009
