Thomas Francis Hogan (born 1938) is a Senior United States district judge of the

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, who served as director of the

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from October 17, 2011, until June 30, 2013.

Education

Hogan was born in

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He graduated from the

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in 1956, receiving an Artium Baccalaureus degree (classical) from

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in 1960. He attended

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’s masters program in American and English

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from 1960 to 1962, and he graduated with a Juris Doctor from the

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in 1966, where he was the St. Thomas More Fellow. Following law school, Hogan clerked for Judge William Blakely Jones of the

from 1966 to 1967.

Experience

Hogan served as counsel to the National Commission for the Reform of Federal Criminal Laws from 1967 to 1968, and was engaged in private practice from 1968 to 1982, in Rockville,

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, Maryland and

He was an assistant professor at Potomac School of Law from 1977 to 1979. He was an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1986 to 1992, and has also been a Master of the Prettyman-Leventhal Inn of Court. He served as a member of the executive committee of the

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and served as the Judicial Conference's chair of the Courtroom Technology Subcommittee. Additionally he served as a member of the board of the Federal Judicial Center.

Federal judicial service

Hogan was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1982, to a seat on the

vacated by Judge William B. Bryant. He was confirmed by the

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on August 20, 1982, and received commission on August 20, 1982. He served as chief judge from June 19, 2001 to May 1, 2008. He assumed

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on May 1, 2008. He served from 2009 to 2016 on the

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and served as Presiding Judge of that court from 2014 to 2016.

Notable cases

Congress passed the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control "

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" that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole.

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used the

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11 times, striking spending on 82 items. The first case challenging the line-item veto was ordered dismissed by the Supreme Court for lack of standing, vacating the trial court's decision finding that the veto was unconstitutional. '' Raines v. Byrd,'' . In the second case, Hogan ruled February 12, 1998, that such unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution. This ruling was affirmed on June 25, 1998, in a 6–3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. In United States v. TANIOS, No. 21-3034 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 9, 2021), the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that Judge Hogan had erred in ordering the indefinite pre-trial detention of George Tanios, who Judge Hogan had believed had the intent to use pepper-spray during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The Court of Appeals stated: " udge Hoganclearly erred in i individualized assessment of appellant's dangerousness. The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-January 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act."

References

Sources

Brief Biography on the DC District Court's website
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