Okay, so this is easy. But there’s no Puzzleblogger here at ok.com, so it will have to do:
What judge clerked for a judge who clerked for a judge that his clerk also clerked for?
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Article III Trivia Question
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Actually, I expect this is pretty common — given the tendency of feeders to feed clerks to their former bosses (Luttig to Scalia, Kozinski to Kennedy, etc). The hard part is figuring out which Kozinksi-Kennedy people went on to be judges. I don’t have a list, but I wonder if Judge Kavanaugh is really the only one.
Marghlar,
It may happen again in the future, for the reason you suggest. However, I can’t think of it having happened before, which is why the question is posed in the present tense instead of the future tense.
Judge Kavanaugh is a judge, who clerked for Judge Kozinski, who clerked for Justice Kennedy and for whom Judge Kavanaugh also clerked for.
I suppose it’s now up to Judge Kavanaugh now pass one of his first clerks to Judge Kozinski, then to Justice Kennedy (with Judge Stapleton possibly in there somewhere).
And preferably that person’s last name should start with a K.