Opinion piece! Yale and the Supreme Court

Let’s look at the undercurrent of how Yale could decide the future of the Supreme Court by drooling over the possibility of a Yale graduate being the new Supreme Court nomination, and thus telling democrats “it’s ok!  We vetted him!”.  I’m sure Yale does not see this support of Brett Kavanaugh as bias behavior, but I do, vehemently.  This is why.

We are talking about the law here after all and no one screams “bias” more than the republicans right now, except when it’s in their favor.  These are special times!  So, we are at a precedence for how Yale should have acted.  I would suggest it’s probably too late as two of their leading law professors have come out quickly without contemplation in strong support of Kavanagh, without any qualification in their articles/interviews that there is a biased connection.  I’m also sure, these professors, Akhil Reed Amar, Amy Chua/kavanaugh-is-a-mentor-to-women, and her husband Jed Rubenfeld don’t believe, as lawyers, they are capable of bias, even though the daughter of Chua and Rubenfeld clerked with Kavanaugh, and Chua sent many a student to clerk with Kavanaugh.  No….no bias here.  That part is even disclosed in Chua’s article with pride oozing.

Akhil Reed Amar interview with Fox News.Amar with Fox News

Taking this nomination out of world context will be the mojo that motivates these outright beliefs that a Yale graduate is “the man for the job”.  Had they recused themselves from comment I would have not given a thought to them being asked in an interview about Kavanaugh’s credentials through his association at Yale.  No. What we got was a press blitz from not one, but two high ranking professors of Yale Law School (I would argue three as Chua is married to another high-ranking law professor, Rubenfeld).   

What is good here is seeing the problem with moneyed centrist culture.  Amy Chua’s article in the Wall Street Journal will speak to all the upper-class people who believe that their hard work and ethics have gotten them where they are today.  They would never see that their daughter getting a coveted clerkship, that no poor person, no matter how smart could do, (or at least the odds are astronomically not in their favor) as anything other than her own hard work and talent.  It’s so pervasive they will surely take offense to my remarks to the contrary.

Amy Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld are no strangers to getting press.  Rubenfeld was caught in a controversy over his New York Times mishandling-rape op-ed article on college sexual assault in defense of the accused’s rights and what constitutes consent.  Student’s at Yale were very upset at his stance.professor-jed-rubenfields-students-passionately-reject-his-reductive-paternalist-op-ed-on-sex-assault  

Chua and Rubenfeld have written books and many articles for high profile magazines.  Chua, a controversial parenting book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and together The Triple Package: Superiority, Insecurity, and Impulse Control.

“First, that anyone – from any background – can have the Triple Package. Even if you’re not from a Triple Package group, there are Triple Package families and Triple Package individuals. The way in is through grit: making the ability to work hard, persevere, and overcome adversity into a source of personal superiority. This kind of superiority isn’t ethnically or religiously exclusive. It doesn’t come from being a member of a group at all. It’s the pride a person takes in his own strength of will and his own accomplishments.” Amy Chia quote from an interview on her and Rubenfeld’s book together The Triple Package: Superiority, Insecurity, and Impulse Control.

Yeah, about that.  So are poor people just lazy?  Are not three jobs enough hard work to led to overcoming adversity?  I guess I'll have to read the book to find out. Kind of tired of centrist democrats bending to "but...it could be so much worse...now where's my flame retardant suit 😳😳