US Supreme Court justices hire law clerks to assist with their responsibilities.
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices each have four Law Clerks, usually recent law school graduates with law review or moot court experience who have passed the bar. Law clerks assist in summarizing cases of parties' that have petitioned the Court for a Writ of Certiorari, among other things. They also have unpaid interns, who are law school students, or college graduates contemplating law school. As with any other Court, there are legal secretaries, clerks and other behind-the-scenes staff to help with administrative tasks.
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Federal judges on the US Supreme Court are called justices.
Supreme court justices decide if laws are constitutional.
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.
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The president appoints the supreme court justices