Jonathan Cohn, Rachel Brand’s Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Rachel L. Brand, the Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice who resigned on February 9, 2018, is married to lawyer and fellow Harvard Law School graduate Jonathan F. Cohn.
Brand was currently the No. 3 lawyer at the DOJ and could have been thrust into the spotlight if President Donald Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, or if Rosenstein has to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation because of his role in Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. That’s because she would have inherited oversight of the Russia investigation in those instances. However, CNN is now reporting that she has stepped down, and The New York Times reports it’s to take a job with the private sector.
Like Brand, Cohn also worked in the Justice Department during the President George W. Bush Administration, from 2003 to 2009. He was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, overseeing the civil appellate litigation division and managed appellate litigators in the Office of Immigration Litigation.
The 44-year-old Cohn (not to be confused with the writer Jonathan Cohn) and Brand have two young sons.
Here’s what you need to know about Brand’s husband.
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Cohn Has Been an Attorney at Sidley Austin LLP Since 2009
As Cohn’s LinkedIn page notes, he left the Justice Department in January 2009, when Bush’s second term ended. In March 2009, he was hired by Sidley Austin LL to oversee the firm’s appellate group as a partner. He worked at the firm before his tenure in the Justice Department.
“My time at the Department of Justice could not have been more rewarding, but I am ready to return to private practice, and I am thrilled to rejoin my old colleagues at Sidley to further enhance its already significant appellate practice,” said Cohn said in a statement in 2009.
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