An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other ...

Eventually, a new law clerk arrived, and S said the judge made ... Last fall, she convened a group of experts on Capitol Hill to draw attention to the problem. "I don't need to be a lawyer to ...

The big law firms where many clerks end up working ... To Shatzman, who runs the clerk advocacy group, the Newman case illustrates a downside of life tenure for judges. "There's an enormous ...

The federal judiciary is walking back an ethics opinion that told judges to prevent their law clerks from seeking jobs with political groups while still working for the court, instead leaving that ...

Law clerks and other judicial employees are vulnerable ... who pushes the courts to be more accountable through his group, Fix the Court. "It can be a lot of different sort of basic HR things ...