U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2015. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ ALM

Updated 3:47 p.m.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently became the second justice to voice support publicly for the new federal law clerk hiring plan.

Ginsburg spoke favorably of the plan last week during a meeting of the Federal Judges Association in Washington, Tthe National Law Journal confirmed through a spokesperson for the high court.