question: When was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States born under whom Carrie Severino served as a law clerk?
answer: June 23, 1948
context: Title: John F. Duffy
  Passage: John Fitzgerald Duffy (born November 22, 1963) is Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia.  He is a Legal Commentator and Author who has written numerous articles and co-authored a scholarly book on Patent Law (listed at his University of Virginia faculty webpage below).  He previously served as law clerk to Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Stephen F. Williams, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Between these two assignments, he served as an attorney at the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice.  In addition to clerking for Justice Scalia, John Duffy has been very influential in regard to constitutional law and the appointment of federal judges.
  Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  Passage: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ( ; March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States from January–February 1930.  Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a unanimous Court in the 1919 case of "Schenck v. United States", and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States.  Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90 years, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court's history.  He also served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus.
  Title: Natalie Wexler
  Passage: Natalie L. Wexler is an education journalist, novelist, and historian.  She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, and Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, "magna cum laude"), where she wrote for the "Harvard Crimson".  She also has degrees from the University of Sussex (M.A. 1977), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1983), where she served as editor-in-chief of the "University of Pennsylvania Law Review".  After graduating law school, she worked as a law clerk for Judge Alvin Benjamin Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court.  Following her clerkships, she practiced law with Bredhoff & Kaiser in Washington, D.C.  She later served as an associate editor of the eight-volume series "The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800", and her articles and essays have appeared in the "Washington Post Magazine", "The American Scholar", and "The Gettysburg Review", among other places.
  Title: Judicial Crisis Network
  Passage: The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) (founded in 2005 as the Judicial Confirmation Network) is an American conservative political campaign organization based in the United States.  s of 2014 it was run by Carrie Severino, a former law clerk for supreme court justice Clarence Thomas.  The organization describes itself as "dedicated to strengthening liberty and justice in America."
  Title: Clarence Thomas
  Passage: Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American judge, lawyer, and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.  Thomas succeeded Thurgood Marshall and is the second African American to serve on the court.
  Title: Frank I. Osborne
  Passage: Francis "Frank" Irwin Osborne (1853–1920) was the Attorney General of North Carolina from 1893 to 1896.  Osborne was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended the University of Virginia before reading law for 2 years in the offices of Richmond Mumford Pearson, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.  Osborne was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1875.  At age 25, he was elected mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina and served in the office from 1879-1880.  He was elected Attorney General of North Carolina in 1893, but, defeated for reelection to the same office in 1896.  Osborne served a term as a state senator from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in the North Carolina General Assembly from 1898-1899.  He served on 9 standing Senate Committees.  After 1899, Osborne resumed his legal practice at the law firm of Osborne, Maxwell & Kearn.  Though, himself, a Democrat, in 1901 Osborne defended both North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice David M. Furches and North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Martin Douglas during their impeachment hearings.  Osborne was of the opinion that the Republican judges’ impeachments were unwarranted and an attempted political purge.  Osborne’s brilliant speech before the North Carolina General Assembly in closing defense of the justices caused both to be acquitted.  As reward for his successful defense of the justices, Theodore Roosevelt in the same year appointed Osborne an associate justice of the United States Court of Private Land Claims.
  Title: Ronald Moon
  Passage: Ronald T. Y. Moon (born September 4, 1940) was the Chief Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He served his first term from 1993 to 2003, and his second term from 2003 until retiring in August 2010.  Moon studied at Coe College towards bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology.  He went on to the University of Iowa College of Law, where he obtained his doctorate of jurisprudence.  He returned to Honolulu in 1965 and became law clerk to United States District Court Judge Martin Pence.  He served under Pence for a year.  In 1966, Moon joined the staff of the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu where he was deputy prosecutor until 1968.  He left public service to become a partner in the law firm Libkuman, Ventura, Moon and Ayabe where he stayed until 1982.  It was from the law firm that Governor George Ariyoshi appointed Moon to the Hawaii State Judiciary as a circuit court judge.  Governor John Waihee then elevated Moon to the office of Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in 1990.  In 1993, Moon was once again elevated to become chief justice.
  Title: John F. Manning
  Passage: John F. Manning (born 1961) is the Dean of Harvard Law School, a prominent American legal academic and the Morgan and Hellen Chu Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 and from Harvard Law School in 1985.  Following law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Robert H. Bork at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He then served as law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia for the Supreme Court's 1988 term.
  Title: Carrie Severino
  Passage: Carrie Severino is an American lawyer.  She serves as chief counsel and policy director at the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative legal organization.  She was previously a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  She is a contributor to "National Review".
  Title: Closed Chambers
  Passage: Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court is a 1998 book by Edward Lazarus, who served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun during the October Term 1988.  Lazarus combines his reflections as a clerk with a substantial body of research to describe the collapse in comity between Justices - and particularly clerks - at the Supreme Court.  The book is noted both for its extraordinary inside access to internal Supreme Court deliberation and its arguably balanced account of the controversy surrounding many high-profile Supreme Court decisions on the death penalty, civil rights, and abortion.
citations: Clarence Thomas Judicial Crisis Network