“It’s this incredibly rare thing where you’re casually hanging out with him for an hour and a half,” Murphy said.
Judicial magic
Garland has been known to pull a few tricks out of his hat when he mentors students at D.C.’s J.O. Wilson Elementary School. They were card tricks, one former clerk remembers.
They do
Garland stays involved in not only his clerk’s career moves, but their personal lives, too. He’s officiated at the weddings of seven former clerks.
The judge and his wife Lynn host an annual potluck brunch for the former clerks. They organized scavenger hunts in the backyard for the growing number of “grandclerks,” hiding clementines and other fruit as prizes. The brunch spread varied from year to year, but one clerk recalled that there was “always quiche.”
Gotcha?
Garland was a fan of April Fool’s Day, and the clerks plotted to prank the judge, with varying degrees of success.
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