make a legal memo as if you were a law clerk to a U.S. District Court judge. A law clerk provides advice and information, but s/he does not write the judge's opinion. District Court judges are different from U.S. Supreme Court justices: their job is to follow Supreme Court precedents, not make new ones. You will be presented with a hypothetical law or hypothetical government action along with some background and facts. You need to advise your judge whether the law/government action is constitutional, based on past Supreme Court precedents studied in this class.