Clips

The Role of Supreme Court Law Clerks

• 7 minutes
• 916 views

Former Scalia and Breyer Clerks reflect on this clerk role, on the first day of the 2013-2014 Term

• 3 minutes
• 84 views

"It's over before you know it"; describes typical day and extraordinary activities (e.g., death penalty stay reviews)

• 2 minutes
• 79 views

describes how clerks are providing objective analysis for 8 justices, and another justice's clerk provides a second pair of eyes

• 59 seconds
• 62 views

discusses additional analysis required by clerks when petitioners not represented by expert counsel

• 3 minutes
• 32 views

Talks about general cutoffs, "feeder judges" and ideological/philosophical agreement patterns

• 2 minutes
• 30 views

They say justices don't follow public opinion; life tenure and other factors free justices to render unpopular decisions

• 1 minute
• 25 views

Clerking trains new lawyer to do high-level work fast; is "reserved seat" at best advocacy in American system

• 1 minute
• 13 views