About Elliot

Elliot Williams is a CNN legal analyst, author, and regular guest host on SiriusXM and WAMU, NPR’s Washington, D.C. station. He spent fifteen years in the federal government, as a law clerk, prosecutor, and senior official in the departments of Justice and Homeland Security. 

 

A Brooklyn-born son of Jamaican immigrants, he grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children. He probably knows more about Star Wars than you do.