Mark R. Levin

Mark Levin (2015)

Mark Reed Levin / lɛwín / (born September 21, 1957 ) is an American lawyer, author, radio presenter and conservative activist. Levin worked in the administration of US President Ronald Reagan , a. a. as Chief of Staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese . For several years now, as President of the Landmark Legal Foundation, he has been influencing various social issues such as the ongoing legal dispute over the health reforms that were worked out and resolved under US President Barack Obama .

Levin wrote several non-fiction books that became bestsellers. He also appears as a political speaker and commentator. His talk radio telecast The Mark Levin Show is one of the most successful in the United States.

Life

Grew up with three brothers in Erdenheim and Elkins Park. Both locations are in Montgomery County , Pennsylvania . After attending Cheltenham High School in 1975, where he had "skipped" the final year of school, Levin studied at Temple University and received his BA magna cum laude in 1977 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa . In the same year he was an administrator in the school board ( school board ) of Cheltenham Township (also in Montgomery County). In 1980 he graduated from Temple University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree .

Levin then worked for Texas Instruments at short notice until he joined the Reagan administration. There he served as an advisor and administrator to several cabinet members, including Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese , Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary Education and Secondary Education at the United States Department of Education and Deputy Solicitor at the United States Department of the Interior . In early January 1998, Levin was working as a lawyer for Meese when he tried to prevent the publication of documents relating to the Iran-Contra affair .

Levin has served as president of the Landmark Legal Foundation (LLF), a Leesburg , Virginia- based 501 (c) 3 organization , for which he previously served in other roles, since the late 1990s . The organization, which has existed since 1976 and has an annual budget of approximately $ 1.6 million (as of 2008) and six employees, the majority of whom are lawyers, pursues conservative concerns legally, including defending the constitutionality of education vouchers and prosecuting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for improper documentation, the teacher unions for misusing their tax-free membership fees for political purposes, and former US President Bill Clinton for perjury in the Paula Jones case . In addition, she also runs campaigns such as the nomination of Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize in February 2007 .

Approx. In mid-2002, began a Levin from the transmitter WABC broadcast talk radio to moderate telecast. In mid-June 2003 he followed Michael Savage on his slot from 7 to 9 p.m. At the beginning of September 2003, his broadcast was postponed to the slot from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. In mid-May 2004, the broadcast was again extended to two hours. On January 30, 2006, ABC Radio Networks began syndicating Levin's broadcast nationwide . The show is currently being distributed across the US by Westwood One, the second largest program provider .

The Mark Levin Show is now one of the most successful talk radio shows in the United States, with over 8.5 million listeners a week (as of March 2012). In this market segment, Levin shares fourth place with Glenn Beck and Dave Ramsey , behind Rush Limbaugh , Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. Levin comments on the news and the political situation on the program, takes calls from listeners and interviews conservative politicians such as Michele Bachmann , Rick Santorum , Jim DeMint or Sarah Palin , who announced on the program that they were running for the nomination for the 2012 US presidential election to renounce.

Levin is a contributing editor for the conservative National Review . He also often writes for The Washington Times and Human Events , both of which are also conservative papers. In addition, he occasionally appears as a commentator on television - mostly on Fox News Channel - and gives public speaking at political events, primarily in the context of the tea party movement .

Wiretapping controversy

In early March 2017, Mark Levin accused Barack Obama's administration of undermining Donald Trump's election campaign and his new administration in the last few months of his tenure. In addition, he held up against him tactics of a “police state” and called on the Congress to investigate these alleged events in place of possible Russian influence on the election campaign in favor of Trump. The newly elected President Trump then accused his predecessor of having his telecommunications wiretapped in the Trump Tower in 2016. He gave no evidence of this.

Fonts

• Men In Black: How The Supreme Court is Destroying America . Regnery Pub., Washington, DC, 2005. ISBN 0-89526-050-6 .
• Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish . Pocket Books, New York City 2007. ISBN 978-1-4165-5913-9 .
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto . Threshold Editions, New York 2009. ISBN 978-1-4165-6285-6 .
• Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America . Threshold Editions, New York 2012. ISBN 978-1-4391-7324-4 .
• The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic . Threshold Editions, New York 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-0627-0 .
• Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future . Threshold Editions, New York 2015. ISBN 978-1-4516-0633-1 .
• Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism . Threshold Editions, New York 2017. ISBN 978-1-4767-7345-2 .

Web links

Commons : Mark Levin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• http://marklevinshow.com/
• http://www.landmarklegal.org/
• Mark Levin in nndb (English)
• Mark Levin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mark Levin on C-SPAN

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Art Carey: Looking at liberty and tyranny Author and radio host Mark Levin offers a conservative view. , The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 16, 2009.
2. ↑ http://cheltenhamalumni.org/archived-home-page.htm
3. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.nationalreview.com/authors/53282/mark-r-levin
4. ↑ Mark R. Levin in the Notable Names Database (English)
5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/08/us/iran-contra-data-to-be-made-public.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
6. ↑ Tom Zeller Jr .: Nobel Nominations - Left and Right thelede.blogs.nytimes.com, February 2, 2007
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9. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/111253p-100252c.html ( Memento from December 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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11. ↑ http://affiliates.cumulusmedianetworks.com/press/2006releases/011706.pdf
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13. ↑ http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/palin-says-shes-not-running/
14. ↑ Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of 'Nixon / Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .