

Clerks tend to do research and draft legal opinions for the judges they serve under, which can absolutely influence those judges, but the main reason people want a SCOTUS clerkship is for the resume boost.
Clerking for a Supreme Court justice opens doors in big law, at political think tanks, and helps increase your visibility for your own potential nomination as a judge.









That’s fair. When looking at previous feeder judges, they also seemed heavily Republican stacked, but I didn’t want to check them all