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Feeder judges8/1/2023 ![]() Large literatures in law and political science document the role that clerks play in everything from the management of disputes in district courts to the drafting of opinions at the U.S. Law clerks occupy a central position in both academic and popular accounts of the American judicial process. Fourth, we analyze the relationship between ideology and the hiring of clerks and find that the ideology of judges is strongly correlated with the ideology of their clerks. Third, we assess whether the ideologies of clerks differs based on the level of clerkship and find that the liberal skew becomes less pronounced as the prestige of the clerkship increases. Second, we investigate how the ideologies of clerks compares to the ideologies of lawyers and find that liberal lawyers are more likely to have clerked than conservatives. First, we examine whether clerks tend to share the liberal ideology of other lawyers or the more conservative ideology associated with federal judges and find that clerks tend to be disproportionately liberal. We then use this data to empirically investigate several important questions about the ideologies of clerks. There is no special marker to indicate the start of a trail.In order to study the political ideologies of judicial law clerks in the United States, we construct a novel dataset that combines information on the identity of clerks with a measure of political ideology based on political donations. If two blazes are stacked to resemble an equal sign, then this symbol indicates the end of the trail. There are more than 25 miles of marked trails in and near West Rock Ridge State Park, all of which are marked with painted blazes. He was hired in 1900 and remained Park Superintendent until his death on December 5, 1929. New Haven’s city park, which had grown to more than 600 acres, was transferred to the State in 1982, and the State continued to acquire parcels within the West Rock Ridge Conservation Area over the years, for a total now of over 1700 acres.Īmrhyn Field is named for Gustave Xavier Amrhyn, New Haven’s first Superintendent of Parks. In 1975, the State legislature unanimously created West Rock Ridge State Park and established the boundaries of the larger Conservation Area. In 1962, the State of Connecticut endorsed the need for open spaces preservation. In 1927, Governor Simeon Baldwin donated over $100,000 to the New Haven Park Commission, leading to acquisition of a large portion of the ridge and construction of Baldwin Drive in the 1930’s. The park began as a city park in 1826, when Elijah Thompson donated 50 acres to the City of New Haven. The word derives from the Latin regis, meaning “king,” and the ancient French cide, meaning “killer.” Today, the word regicide can also be applied to politicians who topple a president or prime minister. ![]() ![]() Regicide is the killing of a king (or queen). ![]()
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