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Thiru Vignarajah

Thiru Vignarajah, who previously served as Deputy Attorney General of Maryland and as law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi and Justice Stephen Breyer, began his career as a federal prosecutor under Rod Rosenstein at the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland before serving as a city prosecutor in Baltimore. He is now a partner at a global law firm; the views here are his alone. Twitter: @tvignarajah

Latest articles by Thiru Vignarajah

The Big Idea
A look at the past work of the Deputy AG who called for Comey’s firingA look at the past work of the Deputy AG who called for Comey’s firing
The Big Idea

Jeff Sessions’s No. 2 was more moderate than his boss on a range of issues — and an effective crime-fighter.

By Thiru Vignarajah