Jesse Wegman

Jesse Wegman has been a member of The New York Times editorial board since 2013, writing editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He was previously a senior editor at the Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal news editor at Reuters, and the managing editor of the New York Observer. He is the author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College, of which Annette Gordon-Reed said, "this timely and erudite work should interest all who are interested in the future of the United States." He graduated from New York University School of Law in 2005.