Jones Day hired nine U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the 2019-20 term, the Cleveland-based global law firm announced on Thursday, marking what the firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice head called a “bumper crop” year.The new hires give the firm recent insight from a majority of the court, mostly from its increasingly powerful Republican-appointed majority: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as the lat...