# Marty Lederman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marty_Lederman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marty_Lederman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Lederman > Source revision: 1336014525 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American government official}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} '''Martin''' "'''Marty'''" '''S. Lederman''' is the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the [Department of Justice's](/source/United_States_Department_of_Justice) [Office of Legal Counsel](/source/Office_of_Legal_Counsel) (OLC), appointed by [President Obama](/source/Barack_Obama) in January 2009. He previously served as an Attorney Advisor in OLC from 1994 to 2002. He has concentrated on questions involving [freedom of speech](/source/freedom_of_speech), the Religion Clauses, congressional power and [federalism](/source/federalism), [equal protection](/source/equal_protection), [separation of powers](/source/separation_of_powers), [copyright](/source/copyright), and food and drug law. Lederman helped draft the June 2010 memorandum authorizing the assassination of U.S. citizen and Islamic cleric [Anwar al-Awlaki](/source/Anwar_al-Awlaki).{{cite news|last=Savage|first=Charlie|title=Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill A Citizen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html?hp|accessdate=8 October 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=8 October 2011|author-link=Charlie Savage (journalist)}}. Lederman wrote an [amicus curiae](/source/amicus_curiae) brief that was described as leading the U.S. Supreme Court to decline an [application for stay](/source/shadow_docket) by the [second Trump administration](/source/second_Trump_administration) of a lower court ruling. The lower court had ruled against the administrations actions in [Operation Midway Blitz](/source/Operation_Midway_Blitz).{{cite web |last1=Liptak |first1=Adam |author1-link=Adam Liptak |title=How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/politics/georgetown-scholar-supreme-court.html |website=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251226230057/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/politics/georgetown-scholar-supreme-court.html |archive-date=December 26, 2025 |date=December 24, 2025}} == Career == Lederman is an associate professor of law at the [Georgetown University Law Center](/source/Georgetown_University_Law_Center). He teaches courses in constitutional law, separation of powers, and executive branch lawyering. When not serving in government, he has been a regular contributor to the [weblogs](/source/Blog) [SCOTUSblog](/source/SCOTUSblog) and [Balkinization](/source/Balkinization). His blogging and scholarship focuses on matters related to [executive power](/source/unitary_executive), [detention](/source/detention_(imprisonment)), [interrogation](/source/enhanced_interrogation), [civil liberties](/source/civil_liberties), and [torture](/source/torture). Lederman was formerly an attorney at [Bredhoff & Kaiser](/source/Bredhoff_%26_Kaiser), where his practice consisted principally of federal litigation, including appeals on behalf of labor unions, employees and pension funds, with particular emphasis on constitutional law, labor law, [civil rights](/source/civil_rights), [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act](/source/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act) (RICO) and employment law. He graduated from [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) and [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School). He served as law clerk to then-Chief Judge [Jack B. Weinstein](/source/Jack_B._Weinstein), on the United States [United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_New_York), and to Judge [Frank M. Coffin](/source/Frank_M._Coffin), on the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit). In November 2020, Lederman was named a volunteer member of the [Joe Biden presidential transition](/source/Presidential_transition_of_Joe_Biden) Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the [United States Department of Justice](/source/United_States_Department_of_Justice).{{cite web |title=Agency Review Teams |url=https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/ |website=President-Elect Joe Biden |accessdate=10 November 2020 |archive-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110200537/https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/ |url-status=dead }} In early 2021, Lederman left Georgetown Law to join the Biden administration in the OLC as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. This was his third time serving at the OLC, where he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General from 2009 to 2010 and an Attorney Advisor from 1994 to 2002. == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/martin-s-lederman/ Martin S. Lederman Faculty Profile, Georgetown University] *[http://www.acsblog.org/separation-of-powers-2973-professors-david-cole-and-martin-s-lederman-on-the-national-security-agencyas-domestic-spying-program-framing-the-debate.htmlNSA Domestic Spying Program, Framing the Debate] *[http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/335 Video debate/discussion with Lederman] and [Orin Kerr](/source/Orin_Kerr) on [Bloggingheads.tv](/source/Bloggingheads.tv) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lederman, Marty}} Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Georgetown University Law Center faculty Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:United States Department of Justice officials Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:Yale Law School alumni {{US-gov-bio-stub}} {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marty Lederman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Lederman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Lederman?action=history)). 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