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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did everyone read the WaPo article about Usha?  I had assumed she was a Fed Soc type at YLS but apparently not — she’s been basically apolitical, which is pretty damn unusual at YLS.  
I feel a little bad for her after reading it.  Seems like they were really a love match and she is just in a “stand by your man” prison.  They article compares them to the Clintons as a YLS power couple — he is a little like Bill in that he had a sad childhood that left him with a major hole in his heart that he needs to fill with time in the spotlight, positive attention from the crowds, etc.  My guess is that she has expressed reservations as he’s moved into MAGA land but they’ve fallen on deaf ears and she is not willing to jeopardize her marriage over her principals. So she’s probably rationalized it all to herself in some hyper intellectual way (ah, YLS, I do not miss those hyper intellectual political theory arguments!)

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She’s MAGA. 100%. Don’t let the Ivy pedigree fool you. She clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts who are all-in on dismantling any shred of women’s rights, democratic institutions, and a lot of the other stuff that is required for something like Project 2025 to take hold.

She did not just fall from a coconut tree …. [/quote]

I went to Yale law so I’m certainly not fooled by the pedigree.  But we all knew who the right wingers were — they loved making their position known.  The interviewee classmates say she did not identify this way in law school and it seems she wasn’t even a member of Fed Soc which is like the bare minimum for the right wingers.  I wonder if she fell in with Chua for other reasons (maybe small group prof or something?) and then Chua steered her to all this.  Chua and Jed def see/saw themselves as king makers and would seek out students they thought they could propel onwards.  As it happens, chuas best connect was with Kavanaigh.  Each of the profs have their own connections on the fed jud so who you end up clerking for is pretty tightly related to which prof you can get to mentor  you.  I agree it’s all super gross.  But my point was that I had assumed she was the standard YLS fed soc conservative, and it seems like this was not the case.  [/quote]

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