EDNY/SDNY fedsoc clerkships
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:24 pm
Do any of the SDNY or EDNY judges have a fed soc hiring preference?
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District court judges (especially those in the SDNY/EDNY) aren't typically viewed as ideological in the same way that appellate judges are. But I would imagine that all the Trump appointees would be receptive and would perhaps give a slight bump to fed soc candidates given that they themselves are fed soc folks (to the extent they were on the fed soc-approved list of judicial candidates from which Trump picked his appointees). The Bush appointees are variable in terms of fed soc-ishness but the Trumpies are pretty much a safe bet.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:24 pmDo any of the SDNY or EDNY judges have a fed soc hiring preference?
Many of the Trump ED/SDNY nominees are not conservative, this misunderstands how district court appointments workAnonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:54 amDistrict court judges (especially those in the SDNY/EDNY) aren't typically viewed as ideological in the same way that appellate judges are. But I would imagine that all the Trump appointees would be receptive and would perhaps give a slight bump to fed soc candidates given that they themselves are fed soc folks (to the extent they were on the fed soc-approved list of judicial candidates from which Trump picked his appointees). The Bush appointees are variable in terms of fed soc-ishness but the Trumpies are pretty much a safe bet.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:24 pmDo any of the SDNY or EDNY judges have a fed soc hiring preference?
You can mostly reverse engineer the Trump-Schumer package through their questionnaires, which party's Senators voted no on them (several of the Trump NY judges got GOP "no" votes), and whether Obama had previously nominated them. The breakdown has generally been 2 picks for the president for every 1 for the Senators since at least the 1980's. None of the Trump-picked Republicans are hard right, all seem to come from nonpartisan to center-right backgrounds.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:06 pmPreska and Castel are in Fed Soc, but they keep it quiet and afaik they do not hire ideologically in any way.
Afaik there are no obvious signs whether Halpern is conservative or not unless you can reverse-engineer the package. He’s donated to politicians from both parties. He got the job because he’s a personal friend of Judge Jeanine Pirro, as he was her ex-husband’s law partner, not via the conservative legal world (he had a very interesting “describe how you got nominated” section on his judiciary questionnaire).
I agree with this generally especially for EDNY/SDNY, but I think if you look at some of these Trump and Biden judges politics are going to matter to a few of them. A very, very rough rule of thumb I tend to have for district judges is that if you go to the nomination vote and it is basically split on party lines I do a little extra research to see what is up.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:57 pmPeople vastly overestimate the importance of politics, especially conservative politics, for Republican-appointed district court judges, especially in parts of the country that are pedigree focused and generally liberal, like New York.
Blue slips are also helpful for this, which is why the ED/SDNY Trump judges are not extreme.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:13 pmI agree with this generally especially for EDNY/SDNY, but I think if you look at some of these Trump and Biden judges politics are going to matter to a few of them. A very, very rough rule of thumb I tend to have for district judges is that if you go to the nomination vote and it is basically split on party lines I do a little extra research to see what is up.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:57 pmPeople vastly overestimate the importance of politics, especially conservative politics, for Republican-appointed district court judges, especially in parts of the country that are pedigree focused and generally liberal, like New York.