Justin Driver, a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, served as a law clerk to Garland in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2006. Driver also formerly worked for Justices Stephen Breyer and Sandra Day O’Connor before she left the court in 2006. 

“I would describe [Garland] as being meticulous in his approach to the law, and I would also describe him as being measured,” Driver said. “He is not interested, at least in my experience with him, in writing opinions that offer some sort of grand, sweeping decisions that re-envision entire bodies of law.

“He’s very analytical in his ability to cut right to the heart of the matter, without being rude or dismissive,” Driver said.

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