Viet D. Dinh
Viet D. Dinh, also known as Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt , or Đinh Phụng Việt, (born February 22, 1968) was the Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2000 to 2004, under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Biography
He was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. Dinh and his family emigrated to the United States to escape oppressive campaigns from the Communist Government of Vietnam in 1978.
They settled for two years in Portland, Oregon, and they then moved to Fullerton, California. Upon graduating high school he attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude.
He currently resides in Washington, D.C. and teaches at Georgetown University Law Center.
Future SCOTUS nominee?
Dinh has been mentioned as a potential nominee to The Supreme Court of the United States in a Republican administration, possibly as soon as late in Bush's second term if there is another vacancy.
There has never been an Asian-American United States Supreme Court justice.
External links
- Viet D. Dinh Professor of Law; Co-Director, Asian Law & Policy Studies Program at Georgetown Law School
- Biography of Viet D Dinh by the Institute for Corean-American Studies
- Testimony of Viet Dinh Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution
- America After 9/11 Freedom Preserved or Freedom Lost?
- Viet D. Dinh LLC
- Assembly Series and the School of Law present Viet Dinh
- The Patriot Act Is Your Friend Viet Dinh interview with Wired News about the USA Patriot Act
- "Justice Dinh"
