Lisa Graves is the author of Without Precedent and one of the nation’s foremost experts on right-wing influence on the federal courts. She has served as a senior adviser in all three branches of the federal government. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy/Policy Development, Chief Counsel for Nominations for Senator Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Deputy Chief of the Article III Judges Division for the U.S. Courts, among other posts. Lisa is a talented researcher, writer, and speaker.

She is a co-host of the new MeidasTouch Network channel called Legal AF, has a new column—Grave Injustice—on Substack for Courier News, and co-hosts the Five 8 1/2 webcast on Youtube. She is also the Managing Director of Court Accountability/Action and directs its strategic research engine, True North, which she founded. She is also the President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy , which she previously managed, and a Trustee for the Park Foundation.

She has appeared on MSNBC, NBC, CNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now!, the Laura Flanders Show, and other news shows.

Her analysis has been quoted in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, ProPublica, Politico, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Toronto Star, Agence France-Presse, and more.

She has been published in the New York Times, Slate, TIME, The Hill, the Nation, In These Times, the Progressive, PRWatch, Common Dreams, Yes!, Huffington Post, Truthout, Alternet, Washington Spectator, the Nation, and other outlets. Her analysis has been cited in Pod Save America, Newsweek, New York, Vice, Wired, Vanity Fair, Politico, Business Week, Rolling Stone, Roll Call, Newsday, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Legal Times, the Atlantic, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, and more.

She is featured in Ava Du Vernay's film, The 13th, which won four Emmy awards and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary. She also appeared in Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously with America Ferrera, in a documentary narrated by Bill Moyers "The United States of ALEC," in Paramount/BET's Rest in Power: the Trayvon Martin Story, and in other documentary films.

She has been a featured guest on major radio, including NPR’s Fresh Air, Morning Edition, and Marketplace Report and on the BBC, CBC, Deutschlandfunk, plus the radio shows of Ian Masters, Duncan Campbell, Brad Friedman, Nicole Sandler, Rose Aguilar, Joan Esposito, Edwin Eisendrath, Rick Smith, RJ Eskow, Aly Muldrow, and others national radio shows.

Her research and analysis are also cited in books such as Dark Money by Jane Mayer, Democracy Unchained by Nancy MacLean, Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman, Opus by Gareth Gore, Antidemocratic by David Daley, Stench by David Brock, Corporate Citizen by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Dissent by Jackie Calmes, The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman, and other critically acclaimed books.

Lisa has also testified as an expert on a range of issues before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and she has edited briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of groups led.