Yale law professor Amy Chua writes a glowing recommendation of Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh, and people suggested that her daughter would get a Supreme Court clerkship.
Well, guess who just got a job clerking with Kavanaugh?
That’s right, Sophia Chua-Rubenfel:
The daughter of Yale law professor Amy Chua has landed a clerkship in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s office. Last year, Chua—who became known as “Tiger Mom” after the release of her controversial book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on her tough parenting style—wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal after Kavanaugh’s nomination praising the judge and calling him a “mentor to women.” The op-ed was published before Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades prior when they were both in high school. He has vehemently denied the allegations. Chua immediately faced criticism that her op-ed was intended to guarantee her daughter a Supreme Court clerkship. Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld responded to the criticism of her mother on Twitter, saying she wouldn’t be applying for a Supreme Court clerkship “anytime soon” because she had to finish her ROTC obligation after graduating from Yale Law School. The court confirmed that Chua-Rubenfeld will serve as a law clerk to Kavanaugh for a year, beginning this summer.
This went exactly as predicted when Chua wrote that OP/ED.
Who am I to judge? If Brett Kavanaugh came to me and said: “Elie, I’m going to absolutely destroy the civil rights of low-income black children living in urban environments, but your boys, benefited as they are from the privilege you and your wife work tirelessly to provide them, will have a guaranteed Supreme Court clerkship and I will mentor them on how to deal with the white supremacy I support,” maybe I would write an op-ed praising Kavanaugh’s ability to “recognize talent” or some such nonesense. I can see the title now: “Kavanaugh Will Be A Good Massa For Black People!”
Oh wait, no I wouldn’t. BECAUSE I HAVE A F**KING MORAL CENTER.
One of the big reasons that Trump “won” in 2016 is the belief by a significant portion of the populace that the elites were uniformly self-serving and corrupt.
Unfortunately, they were correct about this.