(July 6, 2018 at 6:00 am)Brian37 Wrote: Bad enough our SCOTUS is about to get more fundy. But I was just watching a story about 45's potential top 3 picks. How does "Law clerk" translate to bench experience? If this is perfectly legal, why would it be? That makes no sense. It would be like letting the nurse do the neurosurgery.
Most judges have law degrees first off, but start out as court lawyers then have bench experience before they get appointed to the federal chain.
A law clerk or a judicial clerk is an individual—generally an attorney—who provides direct assistance and counsel to a judge in making legal determinations and in writing opinions by researching issues before the court.
So people who've clerked for Supreme Court Justices have experience working on cases at that level.
