David Cole
Is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has argued cases including Texas v. Johnson and National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley before the U.S. Supreme court, and defended dozens of immigrants charged with being everything from "national security threats" to "advocates of world communism." He is also legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", a columnist for Legal Times, and author of No Equal Justice which was named Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association. Cole was recently named one of the top 45 public sector lawyers under 45 by American Lawyer. He lives in Washington, D.C.
