{"id":4899,"date":"2025-02-24T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/?page_id=4899"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:11","slug":"jonathan-backer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/our-team\/jonathan-backer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Backer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4898 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-375x500.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-555x740.jpeg 555w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-735x980.jpeg 735w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-915x1220.jpeg 915w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-1080x1440.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-740x987.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-980x1307.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/image0-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Jonathan Backer is Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. He\u00a0returns to the Institute following three years at the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division. Before Jonathan\u2019s first stint with the Institute, he served as a law clerk to Judge Ronald Lee Gilman of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Paul W. Grimm of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (ret.). He also served as a foreign law clerk to the late Justice Miriam Naor, President of the Supreme Court of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan graduated <em>magna cum laude<\/em> from Michigan Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the <em>Michigan Law Review<\/em>. He received his undergraduate degree <em>summa cum laude<\/em> from Columbia University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Backer is Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. 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