Judge Cannon's Law Clerks have been Quitting on her

[Ms. Toad]

70. A judge demanding a clerk draft an opinion that is inconsistent with the law

Is one reason for a clerk to quit, especially on a high profile case like this.

I was a different political party than my judge, so we didn't always agree on what we would like the outcome to be. But he never asked me to ignore the law in order to reach the outcome he preferred - unlike a few of the other judges at the court. Had he done that, I would have found a job that asked me to leave early (we had two year terms).

I suspect Cannon is telling her clerks the outcome she wants and having them draft the opinions that way, regardless of the law.