well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically

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Guess who loves Twitter? Hmmm...

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Anonymous wrote:Guess who loves Twitter? Hmmm...

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Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

Why should we? Just because you won’t acknowledge that Kavanaugh is a bought and paid for swamp beast supported by swamp beasts doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t see favoritism.

You are imagining favoritism. The bar for a Supreme Court clerkship is very high. Only a small number qualifies. If you don't have evidence of who was bumped by the Tiger club, you are just making stuff up.

On the other hand, any high school kid is qualified to intern for Harvey Weinstein. To get that job, you do need some favoritism.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

I didn't realize that's how this works. I guess we should assume no one is more qualified than Javanka to be White House advisors too since we don't have the names and resumes of the other applicants.

What nepotism? What swamp?? Nothing like that going on over here.

+1. Just because no one has names they are willing to name publicly doesn’t mean that the process isn’t corrupt and driven by connections.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

Why should we? Just because you won’t acknowledge that Kavanaugh is a bought and paid for swamp beast supported by swamp beasts doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t see favoritism.

You are imagining favoritism. The bar for a Supreme Court clerkship is very high. Only a small number qualifies. If you don't have evidence of who was bumped by the Tiger club, you are just making stuff up.

On the other hand, any high school kid is qualified to intern for Harvey Weinstein. To get that job, you do need some favoritism.

The bar is to be a part of the club. Which she is.

So embarrassing.

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I would be embarrassed to accept the clerkship given the circumstances. Eventhough she went to Yale, she clearly isn't that bright.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be embarrassed to accept the clerkship given the circumstances. Eventhough she went to Yale, she clearly isn't that bright.

I'm sure she is bright, but she clearly got this position through nepotism.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be embarrassed to accept the clerkship given the circumstances. Eventhough she went to Yale, she clearly isn't that bright.

I'm OP - and I'm sure she's very bright. Probably deserving of a Sup Ct clerkship, as much as any bright young lawyer would be.

The thing is that with her mother's op-ed, and her mother's job, and her mother's history, it just looks gross and shady. It's one of those things where even if she could prove that she deserved this plum gig more than anyone else in the world, she'd still look like she got there in a tit-for-tat scheme. Or that she got an unfair leg up.

Imagine being her classmate, with the same grades, the same diligence, and seeing her mother funnel her into this job while you have to get there on your own.

Now it's hard to play a violin for any Yale Law School grad. They are the elite! They have opportunities no one else has. Pity the poor YLS grad who has to do some lesser federal clerkship instead of the Sup Ct. But all the same. It's a really bad look. And possibly worse. But at least a really bad look.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be embarrassed to accept the clerkship given the circumstances. Eventhough she went to Yale, she clearly isn't that bright.

I'm OP - and I'm sure she's very bright. Probably deserving of a Sup Ct clerkship, as much as any bright young lawyer would be.

The thing is that with her mother's op-ed, and her mother's job, and her mother's history, it just looks gross and shady. It's one of those things where even if she could prove that she deserved this plum gig more than anyone else in the world, she'd still look like she got there in a tit-for-tat scheme. Or that she got an unfair leg up.

Imagine being her classmate, with the same grades, the same diligence, and seeing her mother funnel her into this job while you have to get there on your own.

Now it's hard to play a violin for any Yale Law School grad. They are the elite! They have opportunities no one else has. Pity the poor YLS grad who has to do some lesser federal clerkship instead of the Sup Ct. But all the same. It's a really bad look. And possibly worse. But at least a really bad look.

This. Such a conflict of interest for Chua. Kavanaugh doesn't seem to have much in the way of morals nor does he care about optics, so not much hope there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

I didn't realize that's how this works. I guess we should assume no one is more qualified than Javanka to be White House advisors too since we don't have the names and resumes of the other applicants.

What nepotism? What swamp?? Nothing like that going on over here.

+1. Just because no one has names they are willing to name publicly doesn’t mean that the process isn’t corrupt and driven by connections.

How do you prove a negative?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's obviously qualified.

BTW - did you hear that RBG praised Kavanaugh for hiring so many female clerks (ALL women) that this is the first time there are more women than men SCOTUS clerks?

Imagine that. I think she appreciates him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

I didn't realize that's how this works. I guess we should assume no one is more qualified than Javanka to be White House advisors too since we don't have the names and resumes of the other applicants.

What nepotism? What swamp?? Nothing like that going on over here.

+1. Just because no one has names they are willing to name publicly doesn’t mean that the process isn’t corrupt and driven by connections.

How do you prove a negative?

Do you require names of people more qualified than Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to recognize that more qualified candidates to be special adviser to the President exist? Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the right one. Concluding that the daughter of a female law professor who went out of her way to defend the judge hiring her daughter against sexism is benefiting from her mother’s favor to kavanaugh is pretty obvious. There are tons of qualified candidates for clerkships. If Sophia Chua were so qualified she would have gotten an offer from another conservative judge with better optics for her like Roberts or Alito.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

I didn't realize that's how this works. I guess we should assume no one is more qualified than Javanka to be White House advisors too since we don't have the names and resumes of the other applicants.

What nepotism? What swamp?? Nothing like that going on over here.

+1. Just because no one has names they are willing to name publicly doesn’t mean that the process isn’t corrupt and driven by connections.

How do you prove a negative?

Do you require names of people more qualified than Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to recognize that more qualified candidates to be special adviser to the President exist? Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the right one. Concluding that the daughter of a female law professor who went out of her way to defend the judge hiring her daughter against sexism is benefiting from her mother’s favor to kavanaugh is pretty obvious. There are tons of qualified candidates for clerkships. If Sophia Chua were so qualified she would have gotten an offer from another conservative judge with better optics for her like Roberts or Alito.

+1 It's been a few hours and already the press coverage has been brutal. If Sophia were truly talented, she would have gotten a clerkship with someone less damaged and less connected to her damaged mother than Kavanaugh.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiger-mom-amy-chuas-daughter-sophia-chua-rubenfeld-lands-kavanaugh-supreme-court-clerkship-after-op-ed

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Just disgraceful. The playing field for elite jobs is never going to be merit based.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/tiger-mom-amy-chua-daughter-clerkship-brett-kavanaugh.html

Daughter of Fierce Kavanaugh Defender Amy Chua to Clerk for … Brett Kavanaugh

In the summer of 2018, before the country knew who Christine Blasey Ford was, a simple case was being made for Brett Kavanaugh among a certain group of progressive elite: Judge Kavanaugh should become Justice Kavanaugh because he’s just such a darn swell guy. One of the most prominent figures to make that claim was Yale Law School professor and famed Tiger Mom Amy Chua, who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in July 2018 titled “Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women: I can’t think of a better judge for my own daughter’s clerkship.”

Chua’s qualifications for writing this op-ed came via the role she had played helping place judicial clerks as a member of Yale Law School’s clerkships committee. In the piece, she described several generic and anonymous accounts of Kavanaugh’s “incredible” mentorship, “legendary work ethic,” “commitment to excellence,” “humility,” and “decency.” As evidence of this decency, one anonymous clerk noted, “I’ve never seen him be rude to anyone in the building.” She also explained that her confidence in Kavanaugh was so great that her own daughter was scheduled to begin an appellate clerkship with him (one that likely would have to be postponed if the judge was confirmed to the Supreme Court). She concluded the piece by saying “for my own daughter, there is no judge I would trust more than Brett Kavanaugh to be, in one former clerk’s words, ‘a teacher, advocate, and friend.’ ”

When the op-ed was published in July, Above the Law Executive Editor Elie Mystal correctly noted that Kavanaugh’s “ ‘extraordinary’ ability to hire [Chua’s] daughter” was less of a legal qualification and more just something personally great for Chua’s daughter and Chua herself. As Mystal further elucidated, if Kavanaugh was confirmed, “Chua’s daughter will be at the top of [Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court clerkship] list next year,” making the idea that Chua herself did not have something personal to gain from his appointment a little bit outlandish. As Mystal put it, “Chua is just counting on you people who haven’t been educated in her exceptional parenting style to be too stupid to notice that.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiger Mom got her daughter a Sup Ct clerkship

Only suckers think any swamps are getting drained

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1138100488606535680

Can the editor of Above the Law (left wing blog) name just one female candidate to Kavanaugh's clerkship who is more qualified than Sophia? He can't.

that's absurd. there are likely hundreds if not thousands of young female law grads just as qualified as she is. This is payola, clear as day. Sophia will be ostracized by elite legal institutions and will have to scrape the bottom of the barrel after she peters out at her post-clerkship firm job.

Please just name one who applied and didn’t get it.

I didn't realize that's how this works. I guess we should assume no one is more qualified than Javanka to be White House advisors too since we don't have the names and resumes of the other applicants.

What nepotism? What swamp?? Nothing like that going on over here.

+1. Just because no one has names they are willing to name publicly doesn’t mean that the process isn’t corrupt and driven by connections.

How do you prove a negative?

How conservative of you.

Today's lynch mob doesn't care much about falsifiability or other little details.

Trump is guilty (of whatever), Kavanaugh is guilty (of whatever), and everyone associated with them is is guilty (of whatever).