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'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students
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Miloch
Sep 20, 2018, 11:49:54 AM9/20/18
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Guardian learns Amy Chua said she would advise students on their physical looks
to help win post in Kavanaugh’s chambers
A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh as a “mentor to women” privately told a group of law students
last year that it was “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s female law clerks all
“looked like models” and would provide advice to students about their physical
appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has learned.
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 “model-like” femininity to help them win a post in Kavanaugh’s chambers,
according to sources.
Kavanaugh is facing intense scrutiny in Washington following an allegation made
by Christine Blasey Ford 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’s confirmation in controversy, drawing parallels to allegations of
sexual harassment against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill in the 1990s.
Yale provided Kavanaugh with many of the judge’s 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.
One source said that in at least one case, a law student was so put off by
Chua’s 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.
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 “look”.
“He told me, ‘You should know that Judge Kavanaugh hires women with a certain
look,’” one woman told the Guardian. “He did not say what the look was and I did
not ask.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua
Guardian learns Amy Chua said she would advise students on their physical looks
to help win post in Kavanaugh’s chambers
A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh as a “mentor to women” privately told a group of law students
last year that it was “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s female law clerks all
“looked like models” and would provide advice to students about their physical
appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has learned.
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 “model-like” femininity to help them win a post in Kavanaugh’s chambers,
according to sources.
Kavanaugh is facing intense scrutiny in Washington following an allegation made
by Christine Blasey Ford 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’s confirmation in controversy, drawing parallels to allegations of
sexual harassment against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill in the 1990s.
Yale provided Kavanaugh with many of the judge’s 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.
One source said that in at least one case, a law student was so put off by
Chua’s 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.
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 “look”.
“He told me, ‘You should know that Judge Kavanaugh hires women with a certain
look,’” one woman told the Guardian. “He did not say what the look was and I did
not ask.”
more at
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua
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