{"id":163894,"date":"2026-09-28T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/28\/short-shrift-supreme-court-clerk-hiring-mostly-skips-this-appeals-court\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:47:57","slug":"short-shrift-supreme-court-clerk-hiring-mostly-skips-this-appeals-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/28\/short-shrift-supreme-court-clerk-hiring-mostly-skips-this-appeals-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Shrift? Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Mostly Skips This Appeals Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just one of its former clerks on to the Supreme Court. It took an extraordinary resume and years of effort to break the mold. A personal connection to the justice didn’t hurt either.<\/p>\n

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Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just one of its former clerks on to the Supreme Court. It took an extraordinary resume and years of effort to break the mold. A personal connection to the justice didn’t hurt either.<\/p>\n

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Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just one of its former clerks on to the Supreme Court. It took an extraordinary resume and years of effort to break the mold. A personal connection to the justice didn’t hurt either. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}