Alvin Schulman

September 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Recent coverage of the death of Justice Ginsburg claims that "a federal district judge, Edmund L. Palmieri, … agreed to hire her only after [a Columbia Law School professor] threatened never to send the judge another law clerk if he did not." I was Judge Palmieri's clerk when he interviewed Ruth Ginsburg, and can attest that the "threat", if made, was not the cause of the judge's job offer.

By Alvin Schulman

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