Law schools outside the Harvard-Yale-Stanford trifecta from which Merrick Garland hires his clerks want a piece of the action and would like to see federal judges in general be more inclusive in filling those coveted slots.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Garland maintains an unusually narrow law school pipeline in judicial clerk hiring: all but eight of his 75 current and former clerks at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit are graduates of Harvard Law School, Yale Law School or Stanford Law School. Garland’s choices have a big impact on the U.S. Supreme Court, because more than half of his clerks have continued on to those highly sought-after positions—according to a recent analysis by The National Law Journal.
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