Victor Williams is a Washington, D.C. attorney and law professor with many years’ experience teaching, publishing, and practicing. Williams has published over a dozen law journal articles and essays with top law schools across the nation.
Professor Williams' published scholarship, covering a wide variety of law and policy areas, is frequently cited by other authors. His academic writings include articles and essays published by the law journals of Michigan, Cardozo, William & Mary, Columbia, George Mason, Kentucky, Marquette, Seton Hall and Loyola. His practice-oriented articles and essays have been published by the Banking Law Journal, Commercial Law Journal, Administrative Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, Trial, Judicature and Federal Lawyer.
During the ongoing Transition and into 2025, Professor Williams now pledges to redouble his past innovative and disruptive support for Donald John Trump.
Williams has been frequently interviewed as a Trump supporting law professor and a constitutional law expert.
Professor Williams has long been the nation's leading academic advocate supporting the President's constitutional right to use recess appointments to staff the government and fill federal judicial positions. The President may simply sign a recess commission to immediately put the federal official to work
Victor Williams was the only law professor in the nation to support the Executive's recess appointment authority in the seminal 2014 Noel Canning v. NLRB adjudication at the Supreme Court.
He regularly places commentaries and op-eds in popular media venues including The Hill, National Law Journal, Jurist, Legal Intelligencer, Fulton County Daily, Christian Science Monitor, et al.
Williams has been a frequent media guest for radio, television, and alternative media including CNN, NBC, Fox News, ABC et al.
Professor Williams has particular knowledge and expertise regarding our cherished U.S. Constitution, federal appointments, federal jurisdiction, criminal justice, criminal procedure, immigration policy, administrative law. international law, and international trade/arbitration.
In 2015, Professor Williams was drawn to candidate Donald Trump’s pragmatic “America first” and “forgotten American worker” agenda. Williams came to believe that Trump truly loved America and that Trump was fully dedicated to renewing the American Dream for all citizens regardless of their race, gender, religion, or soci0-economic background.
In December 2015, Professor Williams was the first and only law professor in the nation to predict Donald Trump's ultimate 2016 victory. Williams made his prediction in a televised debate/discussion with Ed Gilgore of New York Magazine. (begins @ 18/29 minutes -- December 9, 2015.
Victor Williams is a living example of the miracle of that American dream. He went from hardscrabble Arkansas to Harvard, and then went on to earn degrees from California, Columbia, and George Mason law schools.
Willliams was a first-generation graduate from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Willias was a few years after Mike Huckabee and quite a few years before Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
So, Williams knew in both his heart and head that Trump would win in 2016.
Williams has been a member of the Federalist Society since founding the U.C.-Hastings chapter as a law student in 1988 and has been a member of the bar since his federal judicial clerkship in 1991.
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As noted, he holds a graduate degree in policy (Harvard), a law degree (U.C.-Hastings), and two advanced law degrees (Columbia and George Mason).
Professor Williams has held faculty appointments with the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law and the University of Maryland’s Carey School of Law.
Prior to his D.C. law teaching career, Williams held his first tenured faculty position at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Williams was an early primary supporter of candidate Donald Trump and he mounted a widely-reported media/litigation campaign against Trump's primary opponent Ted Cruz exposing that Cruz is not eligible for the presidency because he is a "natural born" Canadian.
[[Williams now strongly supports Ted Cruz's 2024 re-election as the Texas Senator has strongly supported Donald J. Trump. Williams now encourages all Trump supporters to rally to Cruz's side in his tough 2024 Texas re-election fight against out-of-state leftist, radical money.]]
On July 4, 2016, Williams formally founded "Law Professors for Trump" to advocate in the media and in the courts for Donald Trump as candidate and then for the Trump Administration.
Williams penned and placed a significant number of pro-Trump policy op-eds and commentaries during the campaign and the first four years.
Wiliams authored and filed numerous amicus curiae briefs with both trial and appellate courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court -- in support of Donald Trump and his Administration policies.
In 2019, attempting to move the Virginia Republican Party towards MAGA and America First positions, Professor Williams launched a 2020 campaign for the U.S. Senate GOP nomination in Virginia. Williams ran on a zealously pro-Trump platform. He directed his fire at Russia-Hoaxer Senator Mark Warner.
Below, Williams announces his Senate candidacy at the Leadership Institute's 2019 Conservative Summer Sorrie by denouncing Russia-Hoaxer Mark Warner:
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Even while a U.S. Senate candidate, in January 2020, Williams filed a historic .amicus curiae brief in support of Donald Trump with the U.S. Senate constituted as the nation's High Court of Impeachment.
In the first amicus curiae brief ever filed with the Senate transformed into the nation's High Court of Impeachment, Williams argued that the House impeachment was invalid and that it was effectively an unconstitutional attainder (defamatory legislative punishment). He formally served the brief to relevant parities, to Chief Justice John Roberts and to individual Judge-Juror Senators.
Williams zealously supported President Trump's re-election in 2020. He sounded early warnings about election corruption resulting from irregular mail-in ballots, collection box insecurity, registration fraud, and Zuckerbucks flooding into swing states meant to influence election processes.
In late October, Williams realized that his worst fears about that the election of 2020 being corrupt and illegitimate were unstoppable.
After the steal happened, Professor Williams first pushed for direct elector appointment by state legislatures as had been predominantly done in the first forty years of the Republic.
Williams then advocated for a contingent House of Representative selection of the president (voting state by state) just as had been done to place Thomas Jefferson in the White House on February 17, 1801.
Williams stressed that both election protocols are in full accord with -- if not mandated by --- Article II and the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution following a failed, corrupt election.
Williams was gravely disappointed that Mike Pense allowed the D.C. establishment and washed-up, anti-Trump RINOs to dissuade him from carrying out his constitutionally mandated duty to send questionable state elector certificates back to their respective state legislatures for ratification. Constitutional history will not treat Mike Pence kindly.
Victor Williams still believes that the truth of the January 6, 2021 capitol events is being buried deep in the D.C. swamp and under the Biden-Harris D.C. gulag.
The is no doubt that Attorney General Merrick Garland and his DOJ henchpersons hold the shameful shovels.
Revolted by the 2020 election steal, Williams got as far away from D.C.-- but still in the USA -- as he could. He took six months to invest in a property on far-away Maui Island in Hawaii.
In late 2021 after returning to the mainland, Williams next began something of a two-year sabbatical in Fairhope, Alabama.
Fairhope was the beautiful Mobile Bay area village where Williams lived for two years when clerking for U.S. District Judge Brevard Hand immediately after law school in San Francisco.
Professor Williams knew that the Heart of Dixie loved Donald John Trump as much as he did.
It was in deep red Alabama that Victor Williams renewed his commitment to Trump, America First, and the MAGA movement.
Williams began to noodle the idea of a grassroot effort to encourage Democrats and Independents to actively and pubically support MAGA, America First, and Donald J. Trump.
A "Trump Democrats" experiment was needed in Alabama.
In perhaps too-bold of a move, Victor Williams filed to run as a Democrat in the Alabama's 2022 U.S. Senate cross-over primary election.
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Amazingly, Professor Williams received early support running on a platform of "All Alabamians Love Trump."
Williams invoked the Alabama populist heritage of great Alabama Democrats such as Governor "Big Jim" Folsom. The academic self-deprecatingly portrayed himself as equally hard-partying and hard-living as Big Jim Folsom.
He selected Alabama's Hank Williams, Sr.'s "Kaw-Liga" as the campaign theme song. "Kaw Liga" reminds America-Loving and Trump-Loving citizens that all types of love must be expressed in action -- or forever lost.
Williams openly spoke out against the stolen 2020 presidential election and harshly criticized the horrific inflation that Biden-Harris were causing with their inane, irresponsible policies.
Williams spoke passionately about paycheck-to-paycheck Americans not being able to afford to live.
Williams addressed sky rocketing bills for groceries, gas, and home power.
In a surprise to party elites, the respected Emerson College/The Hill Poll showed that Victor Williams had garnered immediate support.
Within just weeks of announcing, Williams was in a dead heat with the well-known establishment Democrat candidate (Rev. Will Boyd) who had been the Democrat Lt. Governor nominee in 2018.
The Emmerson/Hill poll proved to Williams that a majority of Alabama Democrat "undecideds" were ready to become Trump Democrats.
The Alabama Secretary of State initially certified Williams place on the primary ballot in accord with Alabama cross-over primary election law and Alabama Democrat Party rules.
However, leftist elites began a media-driven cancel campaign to pressure the Alabama Democrat Party's Central Committee to remove Williams name from the ballot.
Williams publicly pled guilty when charged with America First beliefs, MAGA loyalty, and openly professed support and love for President Trump.
Shockingly, the Alabama Democrat Party took the unprecedent step of formally revoking Williams' certification and he was struck from the primary ballot.
Below Professor Williams sponsors and hosts a pro-Trump booth at the 2022 National CPAC Convention in Orlando promoting Democrats, Republicans, and Independents for Trump:
After he was stripped from the ballot by anti-democratic forces comprising the Democrat Party, Williams followed Trump's lead by endorsing Republican Katie Britt for the crossover primary and then endorsing Britt for the general election.
Telling Insult to Elector Injury: The Alabama Democrat Pary refused to refund Williams' $3500 filing fee paid to the party for primary ballot access.
Still, the experience was invaluable as it proved to Williams that Trump had support among Democrats and Independents as well a most Republicans.
While returning to the D.C. area, Professor Williams authored and lodged his most amicus curiae brief in January 2024 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit arguing that President Trump had full and absolute immunity for all actions taken during his time as our Chief Executive.
Williams' brief also argued that so-called special counsel (a/k/a Uber U.S. Attorney) Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed and that all of Smith's actions against Trump were null and void.
Williams' positions in his brief were ultimately ratified by the U.S Supreme Court's June 2024 immunity ruling in the case.
Williams' position on Jack Smith's illegitimacy was soon after ratified by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that Jack Smith held an illegal appointment.
MORE ABOUT VICTOR WILLIAMS' PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Born and raised hardscrabble in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (consistently ranked one the most crime ridden and economically depressed areas of the South), Williams only escaped transgenerational poverty though embracing American educational opportunity.
After a five-year struggle involving innumerable part-time jobs, he was a first generation graduate from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Seeking to play forward his American dream blessings, Williams earned a teaching certificate through a graduate program and taught school prior to, during, and immediately after taking a graduate degree in public policy at Havard University.
Below is a picture of Williams teaching low-income students most from a nearby public housing estate. San Jacinto Elementary, outside Dallas, Texas is where Williams taught the year after graduating from Harvard:
Williams next earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (recently rebranded as U.C. Law San Francisco). Williams was one year behind Kamala Harris in earning his J.D. at Hastings.
While in law school, Victor Williams founded the Hasting Republican Club and the Hastings Chapter of the Federalist Society. Williams served as an Articles Editor of the Hastings' Constitutional Law Quarterly and also as a National Editor of the Federalist Society's Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
While at UC Law San Francisco (Hastings), Williams was a summer intern with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Los Angeles Regional Office.
During his second year at Hastings, Williams had the distinct honor to serve as a Research Assistant for Professor (now Dean and Chancellor) David L. Faigman.
After completing an externship with U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit Judge Joseph Sneed and Eleventh Circuit Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Williams next took a two-year federal judicial clerkship with well-known conservative jurist --the Honorable William Brevard Hand of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Alabama.
Williams subsequently earned a graduate law degree in International Law and Federal Jurisdiction (LL.M.) from Columbia University’s Law School while teaching law fulltime at the City University of New York's John Jay College.
Williams then relocated from New York City to Washington, D.C. for a professorial appointment with the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law.
While teaching fulltime, Willliams completed an advanced graduate law degree in Law & Economics (LL.M.) from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law.
Williams has published scholarship and commentary that offer strong support for the constitutional discretion and appointment prerogatives of past presidents without regard to their party affiliation. Williams has been a leading advocate for the Executive use of both Acting Appointments and Recess Commissions for the past five presidents.
Although these past presidents (before Donald Trump) often pursued policy ends at odds with Professor Williams’ personal common-sense conservative policy preferences, he continued to defend their constitutional authority.
EXAMPLES OF VICTOR WILLIAMS' MANY COLUMNS, OP-EDS, AND PRESS RELEASES IN SUPPORT OF TRUMP:
“Law Prof Predicts Trump Victory: 7 Reasons Trump Wins 2020,” PR NEWSWIRE, October 29, 2020.
“Pro-Trump Prof Files Historic-First Amicus Curia Brief in Senate High Court of Impeachment Arguing House Action was Illegal Attainder not Valid Impeachment,” PR NEWSWIRE, Jan 31, 2020.
“Senate’s 30-Hour Debate Rule Hobbles Agencies and Courts,” THE HILL, February 9, 2019.
“Scrap Senate’s 30 Hour per Nominee Debate Rule,” THE HILL, Oct. 2, 2017.
“Madison, Hamilton, & Scalia: End Gorsuch Filibuster,” The HILL, April 6, 2017.
“Travel Ban Challenge Present a Non-Reviewable Political Question.” JURIST, February 18, 2017.
“Trump Will Bring Return to Rule of Law & Econ Growth,” THE HILL, November 6, 2016.
“Law Professor Now Proudly in Basket of Deplorables,” THE HILL, September 20, 2016.
“Magna Carta’s 800th Anniversary,” JURIST, June 13, 2015.