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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2019/06/14/tiger-cub-follows-kavanaugh/?slreturn=20190517155335
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Financial Times writer Edward Luce calls Chua “a shrewd string-puller,” saying that “overnight the Chuas have turned into emblems of what Americans distrust about their meritocracy.” Slate’s Jeremy Stahl essentially makes similar criticisms, suggesting that the Chuas “might apologize to [Above the Law’s Elie] Mystal [who wrote a year ago that Chua’s op-ed was self-serving], or turn down the clerkship if they “had anything resembling shame.”

So are the criticisms fair to Chua and her daughter? Well, yes. And no.

[b]First, the timing of her hiring is awful—really awful. It happened barely a year after that fawning op-ed by Chua and Sophia’s own declaration on Twitter that she had no plans to clerk for the Supreme Court because of her military obligations (she served in the ROTC in college). While it’s plausible that Sophia didn’t expect the Army to allow her another deferment (she’s now clerking for Britt Grant, judge on the 11th Circuit), why the rush to clerk for Kavanaugh now? I mean, Kavanaugh will be there for a long, long, time, and she could clerk for him after her Army stint.[/b]
It’s almost as if Kavanaugh is rubbing our noses in it, says CNN commentator Kate Maltby: “Appointing the daughter of the powerful woman who may have helped your nomination—it’s the latest way to ‘own the libs.’ Kavanaugh wants us to know he simply doesn’t care what we think of him. He’s won.”

But where some critics lost me is when they overplay the nepotism and privilege argument. Yeah, Sophia has a leg up as the daughter of two Yale Law School professors, but comparing her situation to the low-performing students caught in the recent college admissions cheating scandal? Seriously?
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It is interesting that Chua and Rubenfeld didn't think more about the optics.   Clerk for Kavanaugh (hardly the most highly thought of justice) vs. keeping her reputation intact.  Not sure Tiger Cub got the better part of the bargain here.[/quote]

Yeah, it's bad--unless she actually does something in the military at some point and has a redemption arc in the media.[/quote]

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