Ian Millhiser is an American legal journalist and senior correspondent for Vox. He previously wrote for

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as a columnist and worked as a senior constitutional policy analyst at the

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. Millhiser writes articles about the Supreme Court, and has criticized many of its decisions.

Biography

Millhiser received his

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from

Kenyon College Kenyon College ( ) is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. It is the oldest private instituti ...

in 2000 and his J.D. ''

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'' from

Duke University School of Law The Duke University School of Law is the law school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law is a constituent academic unit that began in 1868 as the ...

, where he was a member of the

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and the senior note editor for the ''

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''. He subsequently clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the

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and served as a

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corps member in the

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. He has also worked as an attorney at the National Senior Citizens Law Center’s Federal Rights Project and as assistant director for communications at the

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. Millhiser is the author of two books about the

Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all Federal tribunals in the United States, U.S. federal court cases, and over Stat ...

: ''Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted'' (2015) and ''The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America'' (2021). Reviews of ''The Agenda'' were published in ''

the Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'' and ''

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''.

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