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Totally different kind of clerk. Also Alito and Gorsuch don't even participate in the cert. pool.
Again, totally different kind of clerk. The Clerk of Court is someone who actually runs the whole court. A law clerk is merely working for one judge, reading the briefings, and summarizing and analyzing them. The judge can then either ignore that entirely, or treat it as an executive summary, or agree with it, or even adopt language from it in the final opinion.
Law clerks are recent graduates with high academic qualifications if they got one of the highly coveted federal clerkships. Also the judge probably personally took a liking to someone chosen as a clerk. So that's more that the judge is incensed that someone is bullying the judicial equivalent of a teacher's pet.
I know this is getting off on a bit of a tangent. But, The Clerk of Court, are they usually a lawyer, paralegal, etc... or just an administrator with tons of experience?