Jed Shugerman was mentioned in a Law and Crime article regarding an amicus brief that has been submitted in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland challenging the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States.
The amici curiae (which means friends of the court) submitted this brief in the context of Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh‘s (D) challenge of the Whitaker appointment. Frosh has argued that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have replaced Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, not Whitaker, and has called the move “illegal and unconstitutional.”
The amici curiae have been named as University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Dean and Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, UCLA School of Law Prof. Jon D. Michaels, George Washington University Law School Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law Alan B. Morrison, Georgetown University Law Center Prof. Victoria Nourse, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Chair Peter M. Shane, Fordham University School of Law Prof. Jed H. Shugerman, and Harvard Law School Prof. Laurence H. Tribe.