Among prominent federal appeals court judges in the 1990s, Barack Obama was known as “the one who got away.”
In 1990, Obama had been elected the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review, which made him a blazingly hot prospect as a law clerk for one of the top federal appeals judges, who in turn would almost certainly send him on to the Supreme Court as a clerk.
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