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Lawyer turned writer, editor, and speaker. Founder, Above The Law (@ATLblog) and Underneath Their Robes. Author, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel (@SCOTUSambitions).

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    1. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 13

      David Lat Retweeted Above the Law

      Some context & additional info re: this post by @ElieNYC: 1. No, @SChuaRubenfeld (daughter of @AmyChua) won't be clerking for a Justice Kavanaugh on #SCOTUS anytime soon; she did college ROTC & owes her next few years to the military.https://twitter.com/atlblog/status/1017799480161263616 …

      David Lat added,

      Above the LawVerified account @atlblog
      We've reached the intellectual nadir of @YaleLawSch 's clannish support for #Kavanaugh with @amychua calling him a "mentor for women" b/c he hired her own daughter, and 10 other people from Yale that she knows. (by @ElieNYC) https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/yale-prof-promotes-brett-kavanaughs-extraordinary-ability-to-hire-her-daughter/ …
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    2. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 13

      2. Sophia boasts a perfect transcript from @YaleLawSch - why do you think Kavanaugh hired her in the first place - so she doesn't need her mom's help in landing a #SCOTUS clerkship (plus Kavanaugh feeds almost all his clerks these days anyway).

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    3. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 13

      3. Most #lawschool grading is blind, so @SChuaRubenfeld doesn't owe her grades (or @YaleLJournal membership or other credentials) to her parents being @YaleLawSch faculty.

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      David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 13

      4. If people want to attack Judge Kavanaugh's jurisprudence, that's fine - but personal attacks on him and his supporters are unfortunate. #SCOTUS #SCOTUSnominee #ScotusPick

      12:08 PM - 13 Jul 2018
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        2. Hank Mardukas‏ @FrequentDissent Jul 14
          Replying to @DavidLat

          Not sure how you can still employ such intellectually lazy caustic hacks like @ElieNYC and @JosephPatrice

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        3. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 14
          Replying to @FrequentDissent @ElieNYC @JosephPatrice

          Please read the P.P.S. to this post:http://bit.ly/2Jnxm6y 

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        4. Hank Mardukas‏ @FrequentDissent Jul 14
          Replying to @DavidLat @ElieNYC @JosephPatrice

          Ah, my apologies. Your piece was informative and comprehensive, and without any bitterness! Thanks for following up

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        5. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 14
          Replying to @FrequentDissent

          Not a problem - I'm happy to clarify this whenever I get the opportunity - and thanks for your readership. If you like, feel free to go straight to my author page (or bookmark it or put it in your RSS reader):https://abovethelaw.com/author/david-lat/ …

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        2. David Oscar Markus‏ @domarkus Jul 13
          Replying to @DavidLat

          I’d pay good money to see a @DavidLat vs. @ElieNYC cage match.

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        3. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Jul 13
          Replying to @domarkus @ElieNYC

          Oh @ElieNYC would destroy me, whether you are talking literally/physically (he's like twice my size) or metaphorically/verbally (I don't have his thick skin; I seek harmony and civility - which makes today's news cycle a terrible fit for me).

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        4. Alexander Soo‏ @alexsoozy Jul 15
          Replying to @DavidLat @domarkus @ElieNYC

          I seek harmony and civility. People like you are how literal nazis get into power.

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        1. Dylan Quigley‏ @DylanNQuigley Jul 13
          Replying to @DavidLat

          my dude chua’s whole oped *was* personal instead of being about jurisprudence. that was the uh second sentence of @ElieNYC’s article...

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        2. Richard Crespo‏ @rcrespo69 Jul 13
          Replying to @DavidLat @amychua

          I do not care that Kavanaugh is a great mentor or how nice he is to his daughters. Judges are suppose to mentor their clerks. Fathers are suppose to be nice to their children. I care about how his rulings will impact the children of strangers. Especially poor strangers.

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        3. Eve Marni‏ @EveMarni Jul 14
          Replying to @rcrespo69 @DavidLat @amychua

          Yes, and it's very easy to be a 'fierce advocate' for women who largely came from his alma mater (or Harvard). I'm more interested in whether he advocates for women in general, or just those who have Ivy League pedigrees / privileged backgrounds etc.

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        4. Richard Crespo‏ @rcrespo69 Jul 14
          Replying to @EveMarni @DavidLat @amychua

          Like many elite law schools Yale does not have traditional grades (A, B...). Consequently placement with feeder judges is often dependent on who the law student knows. That is the feeder judge will contact certain law professors and will take the professors recommendation

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        1. Ken Miller‏ @kendmil Jul 13
          Replying to @DavidLat @amychua

          You kind of missed the point. It wasn't to personally attack Kav supporters. It was to say, giving Kav support for his personal qualities while ignoring the incredible damage his jurisprudence will do to millions of people, including unnecessary deaths of many women, is immoral.

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        2. ♡ ♥♡ Evan Cornish ♡ ♥♡‏ @tredcarefully Jul 14
          Replying to @DavidLat

          I really didn’t like how the article diminished Chua’s membership on the clerkship committee and seemed like she was “just a mom.” Sexist/anti-Asian vibes. Also, what Elie called a small sample size (10 people) was literally more than 20% of Kavanaugh’s total clerks (48).

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        3. Eve Marni‏ @EveMarni Jul 14
          Replying to @tredcarefully @DavidLat

          So basically he's great at hiring women that went to Yale (or Harvard)? What about women in general?

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        4. ♡ ♥♡ Evan Cornish ♡ ♥♡‏ @tredcarefully Jul 14
          Replying to @EveMarni @DavidLat

          This is a facetious argument because all schools (somewhat sans Yale) admit mostly based on GPA + LSAT, meaning of the best women are at HYS. LSAT is 25% predictive of 1L GPA, which is usually the most important year for clerkships.

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        1. alex‏ @Ajdesasha Jul 14
          Replying to @DavidLat

          That seems to be @ElieNYC's point anyway. That the fawning articles about personal relationships from other legal/political elites conveniently ignore what his nomination/jurisprudence means for a black person in North Carolina or a married same sex couple in Alabama.

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        1. alex‏ @Ajdesasha Jul 14
          Replying to @DavidLat

          Your bar for out of bounds personal attacks seems really low. But, more importantly: why are negative personal assessments out of bounds, but the positive personal assessments that come out seemingly every day ok? The positive ones aren't about jurisprudence either.

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        1. Frances‏ @Charlen86901806 Jul 13
          Replying to @DavidLat

          Amy Chua wrote a personal piece about her DAUGHTER working for Kavanaugh. Just because she is going to do “service” doesn’t mean she doesn’t benefit from the blatant back-scratching.

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        1. Adam Wallenta Entertainment‏ @AdamWallenta Sep 20
          Replying to @DavidLat @amychua

          What's a personal attack? Shouldn't every bit of his character be judged and scrutinized since he will be sitting on the bench for life, paid for by tax payers while judging others? He was a creep misogynist at Yale and still is. We don't need more of his kind on the bench.

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