My final installment on unilateral Court reform addresses the law clerk problem. In short, I want to break the cartel.
First, the justice should ask all of their clerks, following their clerkship, to work for two years in government service, for a non-profit, or some other public interest work.
Second, I have proposed that the justices should spend part of their time working in the courthouses across the country.
The third proposal will perhaps be the most draconian: the clerks should be barred from talking about cases with anyone in other chambers.
And here are my concluding thoughts:
