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Greta Gao: Chief counsel, House Judiciary Committee Democrats

by Rebecca Beitsch - 09/18/25 6:00 AM ET

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Greta Gao: Chief counsel, House Judiciary Committee Democrats

 

Greta Gao is using her perch on the House Judiciary Committee to help lawmakers look for ways to fight back against the Trump administration in court.

 

Gao, 46, decided to enter Congress amid a swirl of investigative activity, joining in Democrats’ request to secure President Trump’s tax returns and later working on impeachment.

 

Gao said she wanted to be involved in the work “rather than just reading about it,” joining a team at an intense time when “everyone was there for a purpose.”

 

After a stint at the Justice Department, she’s returned to Congress. But with Democrats back in the minority, she plays a dual role in looking for ways to fight back in Congress and in the courts.

 

Gao is helping coordinate among Democratic members who individually do not have the power to sue on behalf of the whole of Congress, but who nonetheless are finding avenues to weigh in on litigation through amicus briefs.

 

“It is helping judges understand and decide these cases. Because even though we’re the minority and are not speaking for the entire body of Congress, it is an important perspective — Congress’s perspective as the body that made these laws that pass these appropriations bills, that establish these agencies or these rules for how the government should operate,” she said.

 

Judges are often weighing congressional intent, and there are signs they have been relying on the briefs.

 

The so-called Litigation and Rapid Response Working Group’s first amicus brief came in a case challenging the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), stressing that “Congress established the CFPB through Dodd-Frank for a reason.”

 

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson cited the brief extensively in granting an injunction, including their warnings to the court on how it would jeopardize protections from predatory lending practices.

 

Outside of court, Gao is focused on helping the committee make sure its work resonates with the public.

 

“She has a great sense of alarm about what’s taking place throughout the Department of Justice and throughout the government, and she feels powerfully impelled to work on this,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said of Gao.

 

Gao is focused on explaining the dismantling efforts undertaken by Trump and “why it matters.”

 

“All these institutions — universities, law firms, nonprofits, NPR, PBS, government agencies — they’re all now realizing that it’s actually vitally important that the American public understands the importance of their work,” she said.