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Carrie Johnson on her reporting that uncovered pervasive abuse of clerks by some judges

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Carrie Johnson, Scott Detrow

Published June 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM EDT

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, correspondent Carrie Johnson talks about her investigation into the power dynamics between federal judges and their staffs, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

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