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Clerks — Who Cares?

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To add to the additional commentary about the tendentious TNR smear of Sonia Sotomayor, I think it’s worth asking about the genre of putting substantial weight on the testimony of clerks at all. Most of the comment threads seem to have gone to Haloscan Heaven, but I remember that whenever I posted some evidence about Alito’s sysmetatically reactionary record somebody would always link to some post in comments (cf.) about how some former clerk(s) assure us that he’s a moderate, he’s the nicest guy in the world, etc. I’ll leave it to you to determine which source of evidence was more useful, but basically what clerks provide is “evidence” that is either 1)far less reliable than studying a judge’s record or 2)completely trivial.

And that obviously goes triple when the evidence (such as it is) comes from cherry-picked anonymous clerks trafficking in racist and sexist stereotypes only marginally less masked than this crap.

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