[browardchad]

This is less of a conspiracy, more like out in the open. :-p

Yeah, except that it isn't.

Federal law clerks are hired at least a year in advance, sometimes longer -- so this one was almost certainly hired before the election and well before Keyes v. Obama was filed in Carter's court.

This individual has an impressive academic record and at least two years of summer internship at a top law firm. A good candidate for a busy federal judge's clerk.

The Slovakian Law School is very likely a goof by Findlaw, since "Comenius" is close to "Columbia" alphabetically.

It's that simple, except in the fevered brains of conspiracy theorists.

[Freedom2specul8]

I think you and freeper lucymom (different thread I think) are on the same wavelength wrt:time line.

I never said it was a conspiracy,don’t have a clue that there is one. Howver those who edited wiki to delete the names of clerk, admitted they think that others think it’s a conspiracy. I personally think it’s a very ODD hiring...and what a coincidence eh?

Conspiracy theories, well I don’t think so in this case. There’s no way a former assoc of obama’s law firm would have a conflict of interest. :-p

[BP2]

> Federal law clerks are hired at least a year in advance.

> It's that simple, except in the fevered brains of conspiracy theorists.

Individual judges can have their own individual procedures and application deadlines and still be within the Federal Judge Law Clerk Hiring Plan. Judge Carter has a respectable, but small, court — not many seats and barely enough bathrooms to service a full courtroom on an extended break. IOW, it's not the DCC or SDNY ... and not necessarily at the top of the list for hotshot Honors Scholars and magna cum laudes like Velamoor. I'm sure Clerkships are probably quite competitive for the Judge, but likely not as competitive as larger, more prominent courts — and as such, would likely have a shorter application deadline.

As this case has been in the hopper since Jan. 16, it's quite possible a large firm like Perkins Coie LLP was able to "pull some strings" — once the case was assigned this spring to Judge Carter in the
9th Circuit — for their young junior partner, who has such a diverse and global educational background.

... BTW, broward — you're very wise not to have sent that barb directly to me — or I would have had to thump you again like before.

[BP2]

The Slovakian Law School is very likely a goof by Findlaw, since “Comenius” is close to “Columbia” alphabetically.

Yeah, so is "London School of Economics and Political Science."

Dude ... seriously ... the crackpipe ...

[LorenC]

The Slovakian Law School is very likely a goof by Findlaw, since "Comenius" is close to "Columbia" alphabetically.

They are likely directly adjacent. In an alphabetical listing of U.S. law schools, the next school after Columbia is Cornell (or, depending on how you organize the list, the University of Connecticut).

I guess to some people, the notion of an Indian Dartmouth graduate going to a Slovakian law school makes more sense than somebody at Westlaw making a data entry error.