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Yale Law dean: Reports that professor groomed female clerks for Kavanaugh 'of enormous concern'
NBC News ^ | September 20, 2018 | Adam Edelman and Kasie Hunt

Posted on 09/20/2018 5:38:21 PM PDT by C19fan

The dean of Yale Law School on Thursday responded to reports that a prominent professor at the school had advised students seeking judicial clerkships with Brett Kavanaugh on their physical looks, saying the reported allegations of faculty misconduct are "of enormous concern" and calling on anyone affected to come forward. According to reports in The Guardian, the Huffington Post and Above the Law, Amy Chua, a professor at the law school, would advise students on their physical appearance if they wanted to seek a clerkship for Kavanaugh. Specifically, Chua would help potential applicants to have a "model-like" appearance.

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To: C19fan

There are a couple reports about this but the people who knew Kavanaugh all said his only requirement is excellence.


21 posted on 09/20/2018 5:45:34 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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To: C19fan

It has become clear that the democrats will go all out to smear anyone Trump nominates to SCOTUS. It doesn’t matter who.


22 posted on 09/20/2018 5:46:19 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: C19fan

Right in queue. You can bet they have a series of BS locked and loaded to exploit any delays. By next week he will be the reincarnate of Jeffry Daumer.

Vote tomorrow and put an end to this farce


23 posted on 09/20/2018 5:47:46 PM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: C19fan

“Amy Chua, a professor at the law school, would advise students on their physical appearance if they wanted to seek a clerkship for Kavanaugh”

Amy Chewonthis? I wouldn’t want any skags working for me either.


24 posted on 09/20/2018 5:47:52 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C19fan

Why do I think students were told to have a “model” appearance as in dressing and showing the professionalism required of the position. That is not the same as “model like” as in super skinny young women wearing extreme fashion while parading on a raised walkway.


25 posted on 09/20/2018 5:47:58 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: C19fan
Yep, timing is very, very suspicious. If there are all these terrible things about Mr. Kavanaugh, why were they sitting on them? Why didn't they come forward with all these terrible things?

Could it be that these lies are expensive and risky to set up? That they're only spoon feeding them out as needed to try to block/delay his confirmation?

Every one of these attempted smears against the judge doesn't harm my impression of him as a fine candidate for SCOTUS...they only convince me of the slimy, sleazy, waste of human flesh nature of the people promoting these lies.

26 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:15 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

There are NO good looking lefty women!! Oh...Sen. Gillenbrand, maybe...but she is an AIRHEAD!


27 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:16 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or flying to Iran in an SR-71.


28 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:26 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

America died awhile back.

These are just the last random nerve firings twitching the corpse.


29 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sessions IS the swamp.)
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To: C19fan

In defense, every law firm should fire any and all “good looking” employees. Else, they’re guilty of...

whatever the heck it is that the left has made up as a crime today.


30 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:46 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Williams

When my students both male and female apply for professional positions in any field, I tell them to clean up anything on Facebook, put a serious recording on their answering machines, remove nose and tongue rings, and dress professionally.


31 posted on 09/20/2018 5:48:47 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: C19fan
Someone else said something about looks.

THEREFORE KAVANAUGH IS GUILTY!!!!11!

32 posted on 09/20/2018 5:49:24 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: C19fan
My granddaughter goes to Brown. When she does presentations she is expected to dress a certain way. It's called modest, neat, clean etc etc.. This is helpful to these folks....not hurtful.

Amy has already said the media take is full of cr**.

33 posted on 09/20/2018 5:50:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Bonemaker
Chua, who is perhaps best known for being the author of a 2011 book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," wrote a July op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled "Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women."

In it, she wrote that she'd helped place 10 Yale Law School students — eight of them women — as clerks with Kavanaugh, including her own daughter, whose clerkship had been set to begin in August. "I can't think of a better judge for my own daughter's clerkship," she wrote.

The White House had no immediate comment on the Yale dean's letter.

In an emailed statement to NBC News, Chua said: "For the more than 10 years I've known him, Judge Kavanaugh’s first and only litmus test in hiring has been excellence. He hires only the most qualified clerks, and they have been diverse as well as exceptionally talented and capable.

"There is good reason so many of them have gone on to Supreme Court clerkships; he only hires those who are extraordinarily qualified. As I wrote in the Wall Street Journal, he has also been an exceptional mentor to his female clerks and a champion of their careers. Among my proudest moments as a parent was the day I learned our daughter would join those ranks."

34 posted on 09/20/2018 5:50:28 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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To: ScottinVA
So.. that he wanted law clerks to look sharp and professional makes him some kind of perv? Good God, these people are sick.

Brett Kavanaugh wanted nothing.

Amy Chua wanted something.

35 posted on 09/20/2018 5:50:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: C19fan
Amy Chua is one of those hyper-intense driven success-oriented people.

She probably figured out on her own what judges valued in clerks.

Is this anything more than the Tiger Mom's version of "Dress for Success"?

36 posted on 09/20/2018 5:51:05 PM PDT by x
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

How did hillary get hired then?


37 posted on 09/20/2018 5:51:12 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Alberta's Child

Asians are smart and industrious that’s their crime. Clerking for a federal judge is a serious position and you have to dress professionally. The left are such evil people.


38 posted on 09/20/2018 5:51:21 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: C19fan

Ditch needs to jam the vote through to get SCOTUS fully staffed for the upcoming season.

It’s a pure matter of good governance.

Let the ‘Rats impeach all of the Constitutionalists when they get back in power.


39 posted on 09/20/2018 5:51:21 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Brilliant

“So they should have recommended that they look like slobs?”

Kavanaugh should have been required to hire female clerks who looked like Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg, the Wide Latina, and Kagan the Tank? Why? To frighten Kavanaugh out of a week’s sleep every time he came around the corner and bumped into one of them?


40 posted on 09/20/2018 5:51:53 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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