Clarence Thomas Clerks Dominate Trump’s Judicial Appointments
8:37 PM 03/09/2019 | Politics
Kevin Daley | Supreme Court Reporter
President Donald Trump has tapped seven of Justice Clarence Thomas’s former clerks for appeals court nominations since taking office.
An eighth former Thomas clerk, Neomi Rao, will likely be confirmed in the near future.
The justice actively mentors his closely knit network of acolytes.
One credential in particular has been a boon to candidates President Donald Trump considers for judicial appointments: a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas.
As of this writing, the president has appointed seven Thomas clerks to the federal appeals courts, while an eighth is expected in the near future. As such, Thomas’s legal approach — sometimes branded unusual or idiosyncratic — can claim adherents among a new generation of judges.
“At this point, Justice Thomas is clearly the leading intellectual force on the conservative side of the bench,†said Carrie Severino, a former Thomas clerk who leads the Judicial Crisis Network, an advocacy group that supports Trump’s efforts to recast the judicial branch.
“His principled approach to the law is very much in the ascendency and those are the kind of judges that this president has pledged for the courts,†Severino added.
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