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Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving as a U.S. representative from California since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff was a member of the California State Senate from 1996 to 2000. Schiff graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law School. As an Assistant United States Attorney, he successfully prosecuted Soviet spy Richard Miller in 1993 and began running for office the following year. He represents California's 30th congressional district, which is centered in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles and includes Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, West Hollywood, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Hollywood, Sunland-Tujunga, Edendale, Park La Brea, Hancock Park, and Echo Park. Schiff chaired the House Intelligence Committee from 2019 to 2023 and was removed from it by Speaker Kevin McCarthy in 2023. He is on leave from the House Appropriations Committee, which he joined in 2007. He previously served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Schiff was the lead impeachment manager in the first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. He had previously served as the joint-lead impeachment manager in two judicial impeachments trials. Schiff is a candidate in the 2024 United States Senate elections in California. After defeating fellow Democrats Katie Porter and Barbara Lee in the March 5 nonpartisan blanket primary, he will face former professional baseball player Steve Garvey, a Republican, in the November general election. Early life and education Schiff was born on June 22, 1960 in Framingham, Massachusetts, the son of Edward and Sherrill Ann (née Glovsky) Schiff. He was raised in a Jewish family that "came fleeing the Holocaust". Schiff moved with his parents to Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1970 and Alamo, California, in 1972. In 1978, he graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, where he played soccer and was both the class salutatorian and the student his peers voted "most likely to succeed".Schiff received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University in 1982 and graduated with distinction. He obtained his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School cum laude in 1985. Schiff was a member of the Harvard Law School Forum; his tasks included driving guest speakers (including William J. Brennan Jr.) from the airport to campus and back. He also worked as a student research assistant for Professor Laurence Tribe. Law career After law school, Schiff spent a year as a law clerk for Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. From 1987 to 1993, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. In this position, Schiff came to public attention when he prosecuted the case against Richard Miller, a former FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union. The first trial resulted in a hung jury; the second trial resulted in a conviction that was overturned on appeal. Miller was convicted in a third trial.In May 1994, Schiff was a candidate for the 43rd district seat in the California State Assembly in a special election and lost to Republican nominee James E. Rogan. That November, he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for a full term, again losing to Rogan. California State Senate In 1996, Schiff was elected to represent the 21st district in the California State Senate. When his term began, he was the Senate's youngest member, at 36. During his four-year term, Schiff chaired the senate's Judiciary Committee and Select Committee on Juvenile Justice, and the state legislature's Joint Committee on the Arts.As a state senator, Schiff authored dozens of measures that were enacted into law. These included Senate Bill 1847, Chapter 1021. Passed in 1998, this legislation continued work on the stalled Blue Line light rail extension to Pasadena by renaming the Blue Line the Gold Line and creating the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority, which separated the project from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The construction authority finished the Pasadena line in 2003 and extended it to Azusa in 2016. A third leg was begun, which is intended to extend the line to Pomona by 2025. Schiff's work to re-energize the project caused him to be regarded in the San Gabriel Valley as the "Father of the Gold Line".During his tenure, Schiff also authored "tough on crime" measures, which did not pass or were vetoed by both Republican and Democratic governors, including a bill to allow minors 14 or older accused of serious crimes to be tried as adults, and a bill that would have made it a felony to hire an undocumented immigrant. According to The Guardian, these proposals were in line with the "tough on crime" attitude of other politicians in the late 1990s. U.S. House of Representatives Elections In 2000, Schiff challenged Rogan, then the incumbent, in what was then California's 27th congressional district. The district had once been a Republican stronghold but had been trending Democratic since the early 1990s. In what was the most expensive House race ever at the time, Schiff unseated Rogan, taking 53% of the vote to Rogan's 44%. He became only the second Democrat to represent this district since its creation in 1913. After the 2000 census, the district was renumbered the 29th and made significantly more Democratic. As a result, Schiff has never faced another contest nearly as close as his 2000 bid, and has been reelected 11 times. His district became even more Democratic after the 2010 census, when it was renumbered the 28th and pushed into Los Angeles proper. Even before that, none of his Republican challengers had cleared 35% of the vote. In 2010, Schiff defeated Tea Party–backed Republican John Colbert for a sixth term. In 2012, he defeated Republican Phil Jennerjahn. In 2014, he defeated independent candidate Steve Stokes. In 2016, he defeated Republican candidate Lenore Solis. In 2018, Schiff initially competed in the primary with Democratic challenger Kim Gruenenfelder. After Gruenenfelder dropped out of the race, Schiff defeated Republican nominee Johnny Nalbandian. In 2020, Schiff faced a crowded primary, which included Republican attorney Eric Early and Democratic drag queen Maebe A. Girl. He won the primary with a majority of the vote, with Girl and Early in a close race for second. Early was finally determined to have advanced to the general election on March 27, 2020. Schiff easily won the general election.After the 2020 census, Schiff's district was renumbered the 30th and made more Democratic. In January 2022, Schiff announced he would run for reelection in the new 30th district. He defeated Girl with 71% of the vote. In lieu of running for a 13th term, Schiff is running to succeed Dianne Feinstein in the United States Senate in 2024. Tenure 2003 invasion of Iraq Schiff voted in favor of the 2003 invasion of .... Discover the Adam Schiff popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Adam Schiff books.

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    Case Against the New Censorship

    Alan Dershowitz

    In The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities​, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s...

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    The Second Impeachment Report

    Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary & Michael Cohen

    With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author and former confidante of Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, the official report of materials supporting the firstever se...

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    The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism

    Alan Dershowitz

    “Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it’s what happened to everyone else.”PoliticoIn The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism, Alan DershowitzNew...

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    Cancel Culture

    Alan Dershowitz

    In Cancel Culture, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsmakes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint ...

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    Defending the Constitution

    Alan Dershowitz

    “Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it’s what happened to everyone else.”PoliticoIn Defending the Constitution, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestsell...

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    The January 6th Report

    Darren Beattie & Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol

    The most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump.   The full repo...

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    The January 6th Report

    Elizabeth Holtzman & Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol

    The most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump.   The full repo...

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    Midnight in Washington

    Adam Schiff

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a...

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    Hold the Line

    Michael Fanone & John Shiffman

    From a twentyyear police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th, this instant New York Times bestseller is also an urgen...

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    The Impeachment Report

    U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

    The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUkraine InvestigationPlus the Articles of Impeachment and the Republican Report Disputing the Results of the Demo...

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    Wrecking America

    Mark Green & Ralph Nader

    "Read Fake President….This book can help us replace Trump with truth." Gloria Steinem "Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains."  Laurence Tribe​ ...

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    The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics

    Alan Dershowitz

    In The Case for ColorBlind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics​, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsanalyzes ...

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    The Impeachment Report

    U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence & Alan Dershowitz

    The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUkraine InvestigationPlus the Articles of Impeachment and the Republican Report Disputing the Results of the Demo...

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    The Impeachment Report

    U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence & Alan Dershowitz

    With an Introduction by Acclaimed Legal Scholar and New York Times Bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUkraine In...

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    The January 6th Report

    The January 6 Select Committee

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, featuring an exclusive foreword on the st...

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    The Mueller Report

    The Washington Post

    ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller“The Mueller report is that rare Washington tellall that surpasses its prepublication hype…the best ...

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    Making History

    Richard Cohen

    A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s historyfrom Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burnsand how their biases influenc...

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    The Impeachment Report

    U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

    The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUkraine Investigation, from The U.S. House Of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This g...

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    The Case Against Impeaching Trump

    Alan Dershowitz

    "A brilliant lawyer...A new and very important book. I would encourage all people...to read!"President Donald J. Trump“Absolutely amazing…. If you care about justice...read this bo...

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    Fake President

    Mark Green & Ralph Nader

    "Read Fake President….This book can help us replace Trump with truth." Gloria Steinem "Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains."  Laurence Tribe​A...