John Robinson previously served as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Federal Programs Branch, where he litigated the government’s most high-profile, cutting-edge cases. In 2024, he successfully represented the U.S. Naval Academy in a two-week bench trial concerning the Academy’s admissions practices in the wake of SFFA v. Harvard. John’s other representative matters at DOJ included defending CDC’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Administration’s termination of the Title 42 immigration policy, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of differential privacy in connection with the 2020 census.

Before joining DOJ, John practiced complex litigation at a large law firm in Washington, D.C., where he worked with Dan as part of a trial team that successfully litigated two partisan gerrymandering challenges in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

John clerked for the Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler on the Second Circuit and the Hon. Joan B. Gottschall in the Northern District of Illinois. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, magna cum laude, and from Yale College.