Warren Berger

Warren Berger functions as a senior federal jurist whose chambers once employed Harrison as a law clerk. He never appears onstage, but his name operates as an emblem of elite legal pedigree and judicial mentorship throughout the series. Advisers and staff invoke Berger to confer professional legitimacy, to contrast nominees, and to shorthand competence and temperamental fitness for high office. Berger’s influence resides in reputation and association: offstage, he shapes political judgments and credential comparisons through the cachet of his endorsement by proxy.