After his clerkship, he worked at the law firm of Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison.

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These days, we think of a law clerkship as a high-prestige post, but back then in Louisiana, people took the word "clerk" literally.

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The Rehnquist clerkship marked Roberts as someone who could be trusted.

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After graduating from law school and clerking for a federal judge, he was turned down for a Supreme Court clerkship by Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy.

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