Reassigning Judicial Law Clerks Is A Band-Aid Over A Bullet Hole

Two judicial law clerks were reassigned through 2026 to address a “workplace conduct issue.” But without judicial discipline, transparency, or remedial training, judges are simply able to hire new clerks and will likely continue mistreating them. We cannot allow the federal judiciary to quietly reassign mistreated law clerks year after year while failing to solve systemic problems that necessitate clerk reassignments, Aliza Shatzman argues in Above the Law.