一项关于法官如何挑选助理的新研究显示，尽管美国法学院学生普遍认为政治在司法助理招聘中起关键作用，但法官本人表示，政治意识形态并非首要因素。
Despite a perception among US law students that politics plays a key role in judicial clerk hiring, judges themselves say political ideology is not a top factor, according to a new study on how judges pick their clerks.