Craig Trainor

Craig Trainor is Senior Special Counsel with the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary under Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Previously, he served as Senior Litigation Counsel with the America First Policy Institute’s Constitutional Litigation Partnership, where he litigated constitutional questions in federal and state courts across the United States. Concomitantly, he served as Of Counsel with The Fairness Center, where he represented the Center’s New York clients, who had been harmed by public-sector unions, in federal court.

For over ten years, Mr. Trainor was a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in New York City, litigating cases in New York state court and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has tried numerous cases to verdict, from unlawful gun possession to racketeering conspiracy, and secured substantial financial compensation for his clients whose civil rights and liberties had been violated by state actors. 

Prior to founding his law practice, Trainor Law, P.C., he served as a New York City prosecutor, an associate attorney at a white collar criminal defense firm, and a law clerk to Chief Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. 

Mr. Trainor was also a member of the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, where he strongly advocated for equal protection of the law and a return to colorblind jurisprudence and policy, and he sat on the Steering Committee of the Federalist Society’s New York City Lawyers Chapter and on the Criminal Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. His writing on the intersection of law, policy, and culture has appeared in the New York Post, National Review, City Journal, the Washington Examiner, Quillette, the American Conservative, the Federalist, and the late Weekly Standard, among other publications.  

Mr. Trainor is a cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he was a national moot court champion and an articles editor of the law school’s flagship journal, and a magna cum laude graduate of the City University of New York at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in government with honors. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mr. Trainor was a longtime resident of Manhattan who now proudly calls Northern Virginia home.