After graduating, Honig took a job with
Covington & Burling in
Washington, D.C. He was named director of the division in February 2013. He led the division's bail reform initiative in 2017. In May 2018, Rutgers University established the Institute for Secure Communities and named Honig as its executive director. He presently serves in that role, while also teaching several courses at Rutgers University, including one at the
Eagleton Institute of Politics about federal prosecution. Honig joined
Lowenstein Sandler in June 2018. In September 2018, he became a senior legal analyst for
CNN. His second book,
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It, shipped in late-January 2023. His most recent book,
When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump, was published in September 2025. Since 2024, Honig has written a weekly column for
New York (magazine). He has also produced a podcast, "Up Against the Mob", and a documentary for CNN on the
trial of Adolf Eichmann, in which he interviewed the trial's prosecutor,
Gabriel Bach. In 2025, he interviewed a Holocaust survivor who shares his exact birth name, Eliezer Honig, in an
International Holocaust Remembrance Day documentary short on
The Situation Room (TV program). In a 2026
Anderson Cooper 360° video interview, he spoke with
Melba Pattillo Beals, a member of the
Little Rock Nine, regarding the Trump administration's potential use of the
Insurrection Act of 1807. ==Personal life==