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

By Noah Caldwell,

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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Carrie Johnson

Carrie Johnson is NPR's National Justice Correspondent.

Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is the weekend host of All Things Considered, and a co-host of the Consider This podcast. In this role Detrow also contributes to the weekday All Things Considered broadcasts, and regularly hosts NPR's live special coverage of major news stories.