{"id":178687,"date":"2018-09-20T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/20\/also-yes\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:21:00","slug":"also-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/20\/also-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Also Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It appears that people screening Brett Kavanaugh’s potential law clerks, spoecifically Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother<\/i> author Amy Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld, both of Yale Law School, advised women who applied to clerk for Brett Kavanaugh to try to look like models<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a \u201cmentor to women\u201d privately told a group of law students last year that it was \u201cnot an accident\u201d that Kavanaugh\u2019s female law clerks all \u201clooked like models\u201d and would provide advice to students about their physical appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n

Amy Chua, a Yale professor who wrote a bestselling book on parenting called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was known for instructing female law students who were preparing for interviews with Kavanaugh on ways they could dress to exude a \u201cmodel-like\u201d femininity to help them win a post in Kavanaugh\u2019s chambers, according to sources.<\/span>

Kavanaugh is facing intense scrutiny in Washington following an allegation made by Christine Blasey Ford<\/a> that he forcibly held her down and groped her while they were in high school. He has denied the allegation. The accusation has mired Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation in controversy, drawing parallels to allegations of sexual harassment<\/a> against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill in the 1990s. <\/p>\n

Yale provided Kavanaugh with many of the judge\u2019s clerks over the years, and Chua played an outsized role in vetting the clerks who worked for him. But the process made some students deeply uncomfortable. <\/p>\n

One source said that in at least one case, a law student was so put off by Chua\u2019s advice about how she needed to look, and its implications, that she decided not to pursue a clerkship with Kavanaugh, a powerful member of the judiciary who had a formal role in vetting clerks who served in the US supreme court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In one case, Jed Rubenfeld, also an influential professor at Yale and who is married to Chua, told a prospective clerk that Kavanaugh liked a certain \u201clook\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me, \u2018You should know that Judge Kavanaugh hires women with a certain look,\u2019\u201d one woman told the Guardian. \u201cHe did not say what the look was and I did not ask.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out that Chua and Rubenfeld are, “Towering figures at Yale and were described by one student as being the centre of gravity at the elite law school,” and also, “The Guardian<\/i> has learned that Rubenfeld is currently the subject of an internal investigation at Yale. The investigation is focused on Rubenfeld\u2019s conduct, particularly with female law students.” (Karma, neh?)<\/p>\n

Well, now we know why Yale reflexively endorsed Kavanaugh when Trump nominated him, the law school hip deep in his sh%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that people screening Brett Kavanaugh’s potential law clerks, spoecifically Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother author Amy Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld, both of Yale Law School, advised women who applied to clerk for Brett Kavanaugh to try to look like models: A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[544,368,407,569],"class_list":["post-178687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-academe","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}