People criticize RBG’s clerkship hiring record for hiring only one African-American in 30 years. (Paul Watford, whom she chose over me, as she should have.) The 4 annual spots for RBG clerks were as competitive a spot as there was. Every one of them a star. I have a question./1https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1448389373817495558 …
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Who was the African-American candidate RBG overlooked in 1994-2020? The names and resumes of whom she chose are public. Who was the inferior candidate she should have bumped? Give a name and a year.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_(Seat_6) …
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Replying to @tedfrank
Not many people have a clue how few African-Americans are out at the far right edge of the cognitive bell curve from which Supreme Court clerks are drawn. It's like South Asian cornerbacks or Mexican 100m dash men.
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You could have replaced RBG with a 105 IQ slate reader and gotten exactly the same decisions.
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But a 105 IQ Slate reader would need 140+ IQ Supreme Court clerks to keep her opinions credible-sounding to the legal profession. RBG apparently felt that affirmative action didn't apply to her in hiring clerks because she was too important to preserving affirmative action.
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Lol, the 35 extra IQ points gets you “PENUMBRA”-tier credibility legal opinions Maybe just give the AA clerks a thesaurus to offset some of the IQ difference
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Is PENUMBRA really any worse than "look, we all know what result we want in this case so this is it"? The only difference is that it fools people who believe in the process and those people are thin on the ground in 2021.
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