Rob litigates cases involving irrational and overbearing exercises of government power. He previously developed a lawsuit that ended the NYPD’s use of draconian “no-fault evictions” to coerce residents to waive their constitutional rights, and he also successfully challenged a civil forfeiture program as a violation of due process.
Rob also litigates to uphold the right to financial privacy. He previously represented a series of small business owners who had their entire bank accounts seized by the IRS because of alleged violations of bank reporting laws, and he launched an initiative that resulted in the IRS reopening hundreds of such cases and returning millions of dollars.
Rob’s writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and Reason, among other venues. Rob has testified about occupational licensing before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and has twice testified about civil forfeiture before the House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee. He has also testified before state legislatures across the country.
From 2014–2017, Rob served as IJ’s first Elfie Gallun Fellow for Freedom and the Constitution. In that role, Rob wrote and spoke about the vital role the U.S. Constitution plays in protecting our most precious freedoms. He spends his spare time researching and writing about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.