Among prominent federal appeals court judges in the 1990s, Barack Obama was known as "the one who got away." In 1990, Obama had been elected the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review , which made him a blazingly hot prospect as a law clerk for one of the top federal appeals judges, who in turn would almost certainly send him on to the Supreme Court as a clerk. But with a remarkable certitude, Obama said no to all that -- and that might have made all the difference.
December 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Among prominent federal appeals court judges in the 1990s, Barack Obama was known as “the one who got away.”
In 1990, Obama had been elected the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review, which made him a blazingly hot prospect as a law clerk for one of the top federal appeals judges, who in turn would almost certainly send him on to the Supreme Court as a clerk.
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