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CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 01:49 AM Sep 2018

Faculty at Brett Kavanaugh's Alma Mater Are Demanding Screeching Halt to His Confirmation

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/faculty-at-brett-kavanaughs-alma-mater-are-demanding-screeching-halt-to-his-confirmation/

A number of faculty members at Yale Law School are demanding that the Senate Judiciary Committee pause confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court due to the attempted sexual assault allegation against him by Christine Blasey Ford.

It happens as Yale Law School investigates problems of its own, namely whether two professors, Jed Rubenfeld and Amy Chua (husband and wife), advised female law clerk candidates that “look[ing] like models” could help them get a gig working for Kavanaugh.

According to Law.com, 48 Yale Law School faculty members (and this number may rise) have signed their names on an open letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

They asked that the committee to delay the vote on Kavanaugh until Ford is given more than a “partisan hearing.”

“With so much at stake for the Supreme Court and the nation, we are concerned about a rush to judgment that threatens both the integrity of the process and the public’s confidence in the Court,” they write. “Where, as here, a sexual assault has been alleged against an individual nominated for a lifetime appointment in a position of public trust, a partisan hearing alone cannot be the forum to determine the truth of the matter.”
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Faculty at Brett Kavanaugh's Alma Mater Are Demanding Screeching Halt to His Confirmation (Original Post) CousinIT Sep 2018 OP
K & R LAS14 Sep 2018 #1
I wish we had a picture. LAS14 Sep 2018 #2
Article on Kavanaugh choosing clerks based on physical appearance: Rhiannon12866 Sep 2018 #4
Thanks. nt LAS14 Sep 2018 #5
Chua is the author of the Tiger Mom book. fierywoman Sep 2018 #3
Her daughter is a clerk for Kavanaugh now nt More_Cowbell Sep 2018 #6
Found this in a google search: pazzyanne Sep 2018 #7
JHC.. and Again.. you cannot make Cha Sep 2018 #8
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2018 #9
Good for them!! donkeypoofed Sep 2018 #10

LAS14

(13,749 posts)
2. I wish we had a picture.
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 02:06 AM
Sep 2018
It happens as Yale Law School investigates problems of its own, namely whether two professors, Jed Rubenfeld and Amy Chua (husband and wife), advised female law clerk candidates that “look[ing] like models” could help them get a gig working for Kavanaugh.


In some other story someone commented on the looks of his female clerks. If this is the case, it would be pretty damning if someone published a composite picture of all of his law clerks. But I guess it wouldn't be fair to those individuals to suggest that they were anything but worthy of being a clerk just because of their looks. Darn. I'd really like to see Kavanaugh have to deal with that.

Rhiannon12866

(203,041 posts)
4. Article on Kavanaugh choosing clerks based on physical appearance:
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 02:25 AM
Sep 2018
'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua

Cha

(295,929 posts)
8. JHC.. and Again.. you cannot make
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 04:42 AM
Sep 2018

this shite UP!

Good o the faculty, though! Demanding a screeching halt to these proceedings.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
10. Good for them!!
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 03:50 PM
Sep 2018

They can't pet this go- this has done serious damage to their reputation. I hope they get rid of those professors, too.

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