257 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures
Elie Honig
Senior legal analyst; host, Up Against the Mob
AI position
No x-risk mention
No coverage of AI or x-risk found in his CNN, New York magazine, or podcast work.
Why influential
Shapes how courts, investigations and executive power are understood by legal professionals, policymakers, advocates and news audiences. Primary policy lanes: justice department; courts; criminal law; politics.
Who pays attention
Lawyers, justice officials, journalists, policymakers and general news viewers
Work samples
- Elie Honig on Trump's IRS ruling
Jul 13, 2026 · video
CNN AC360 segment on DOJ/IRS litigation, typical of his legal-analyst work; not AI-related.
- Up Against The Mob (podcast)
Jan 1, 2021 · podcast
CAFE/Vox Media podcast on organized crime; guest catalog is prosecutors, agents, mob cooperators, defense lawyers - no AI-world guests found.
- Elie Honig Knocks Jack Smith in Searing NY Mag Column
Feb 1, 2025 · article
Representative New York magazine legal column.
AI-world contacts
Tech-side people they have hosted, quoted, covered, or engaged — collected by the research pass. None documented yet: this is the white space.