Thomas Jipping
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Thomas L. Jipping is an American lawyer, legal scholar, activist, and commentator. He is Deputy Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Education[edit]
Jipping holds a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in political science from Calvin College and both a Juris Doctor, cum laude, and a Master of Arts in political science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He was a student law clerk for future Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when Scalia sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Senior Judge Douglas Woodruff Hillman of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. From 1988 to 1989, he was a law clerk for Judge William D. Hutchinson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Career[edit]
From 1990 to 2002, Jipping was Vice President for Policy and Director of the Center for Law & Democracy at the Free Congress Foundation, where he founded and directed the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project.[1] After a year as Senior Fellow in Legal Studies at Concerned Women for America, Jipping joined the legislative office staff of U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).[1] In 2007, he was promoted to Hatch's staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee and later became Hatch's Chief Counsel and then Senior Nominations Counsel. In 2010, Jipping he served as Deputy Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee, created to conduct the impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous.[1]
In May 2018, Jipping retired from the Judiciary Committee, and joined the Heritage Foundation as Deputy Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Senior Legal Fellow.
Publications and commentary[edit]
Jipping is a proponent of federalism and originalism. He has lectured on policy and constitutional issues and published widely in both print and online publications. His scholarship has been published in journals such as the Buffalo Law Review, University of Richmond Law Review, South Texas Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, and Texas Review of Law & Politics. His commentary has appeared in publications such as the Washington Times, Legal Times, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, National Law Journal, USA Today, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and National Review.
He has appeared—usually as a conservative commentator/analyst—on C-SPAN and on various television programs, including ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline, NBC's Today Show, and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ann Southworth (2009). "Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
External links[edit]
- Thomas L. Jipping Biographical and professional information.
- Impeachment Is Cure for Judicial Activism Op-ed published in The Hill and subsequently entered into the Congressional Record.
- WorldnetDaily Author archive.
- Shaping The Courts Debate between Jipping and Marcia Greenberger from the National Women's Law Center
- Should Ideology Matter? Essay published in Human Events.
- CEDAW Treaty Would Undermine American Sovereignty Policy paper co-written by Jipping and Wendy Wright and published by the Federalist Society.
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