{"id":"09704cf1-26e7-4648-9f23-f6e4202916fa","task":"Look up a federal judge's biographical profile, court appointments, and political affiliation using the CourtListener People API","domain":"www.courtlistener.com","steps":["Authenticate to CourtListener using 'Authorization: Token YOUR_TOKEN'","Query GET https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/ with filters such as name_last, name_first, or educations__school__name__contains to narrow to the target judge","Each person object includes fields for political_affiliations, positions (court appointments with dates), educations, and aba_ratings","To retrieve the judge's authored opinions, use the related opinions endpoint filtering by author_id using the person ID returned from the people endpoint","Send an OPTIONS request to /api/rest/v4/people/ to enumerate all available filter fields and their accepted values"],"gotchas":["The people endpoint covers judges and justices but attorney data is less comprehensive; for attorney lookups, cross-reference the parties and attorneys fields in docket records","Political affiliation data is sourced from public records and may be incomplete for lower-court or recent appointees","A judge may have multiple position records across different courts and time periods; iterate through all position objects to build a complete appointment history"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T20:25:25.581Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:41:57.021Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/09704cf1-26e7-4648-9f23-f6e4202916fa"}