Look out, Harvard: Seton Hall grad makes it to clerk status
Anna Persky Stolley writes at the ABA Journal: “In April, Justice Antonin Scalia did what he does best. To put it bluntly, he put it bluntly: If you want to be a clerk and you’re not from Harvard or Yale, he’s just not interested in hiring you. No shocker, that. But the way Scalia said it was classic Scalia . . . In his discussion with law students, Scalia went on to say that he has had only one law clerk who wasn’t from one of the top schools. That clerk, Jeffrey S. Sutton, is now with the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Sutton graduated from Ohio State Univer sity, and Scalia explained that he was inherited from Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. after his retirement.
‘I wouldn’t have hired Jeff Sutton,’ Scalia said. ‘For God’s sake, he went to Ohio State! And he’s one of the very best law clerks I ever had.’”
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A comment of this sort, made by a prospective justice, should disqualify him.
But I guess that Scalia’s been inherited.