Posted on 05/06/2022 6:30:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
[Yo-Yo Note: This is a compilation of several Twitter threads by Will Chamberlain. I have created links to the images that he originally had in his posts. I didn't put the actual images into this post because it made Will's naration too hard to follow. Just click on the links to see the images that he is revering to in each segment.]
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1521685968939630592
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Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain
Meet Elizabeth Deutsch. She's currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.
And, in my humble opinion, she's the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.
But first, a disclaimer:
I have no inside information. This thread is speculation, based almost entirely on publicly available information. I could easily be wrong.
Cool? Cool.
Her academic background isn't that uncommon for Supreme Court clerks. Yale undergrad, Yale law, and 2 British Master's degrees, from LSE and Cambridge.
Do note the Master's degree in Gender.
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Here's where things start to get interesting. Every law student has to write a note - a long legal research paper, usually making a novel argument about the law.
Elizabeth Deutsch wrote hers about reproductive rights and abortion.
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Specifically, she argued that Obamacare's non-discrimination provision should be interpreted to *force* Catholic hospitals to perform "emergency abortions."
Aggressive argument - and hey, law students make aggressive arguments.
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While in law school she wrote a NYT op-ed about reproductive rights. Sensing a theme here.
Her career page on LinkedIn doesn't reveal that much...until we start digging a little further.
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First, thanks to her NYT wedding announcement (of course), we know that she clerked for judge Nina Pillard.
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Pillard was one of the DC Circuit judges appointed by Obama and forced through by Harry Reid blowing up the filibuster.
She's stridently pro-choice. Perhaps not shocking.
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After her clerkships, she got a Gruber fellowship at the ACLU for a full year.
What was she working on?
You guessed it. Abortion and reproductive rights.
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But none of this proves anything. Yes, Deutsch's career seems pretty focused on abortion. But without some connection to Josh Gerstein (the journalist who received the leak opinion) there would be no reason to suspect her.
Let's go back to that NYT wedding announcement.
"The bride and groom met at Yale. She is a lawyer. He is a journalist.
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Isaac Arnsdorf just got hired by the Washington Post as a national political reporter. (Of course he's on the Trump beat).
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But where has he written in the past?
Oh, look. He wrote for POLITICO.
SHARING A BYLINE WITH JOSH GERSTEIN.
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Looks like Gerstein and they are still bros - chatting on Twitter, interacting as recently as last year.
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So, to conclude:
We have a currently-serving Supreme Court law clerk whose career has been almost solely focused on abortion.
She wrote her law school note on abortion.
She wrote op-eds about reproductive rights.
She spent a year working on abortion for the ACLU.
She clerked for a stridently pro-choice appellate judge.
And it just so happens that her husband is a journalist, who shared bylines with Josh Gerstein at Politico, and it looks like they are still buds.
I don't know that Elizabeth Deutsch leaked the draft opinion.
But I certainly think someone who has spent much of their academic and professional life fighting to expand the right to get an abortion could be desperate enough to do so.
FIN
Certainly probable cause, but not quite beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yalies again. Harvard and Yale. Institutions that could go away and the world would improve quite a bit.
I think you’re right that they don’t have to have passed the bar, but being guilty of this means they never will so it is still A LOT to lose. Ivy JD, possibly with a huge loan, and being never able to practice is a very serious thing.
Some kids are very dumb nowadays. That girl who was recently found guilty of Molotov cocktailing a police car went to Colombia!
Idiot bint.
Better question, some university had enough demand that they created the curriculum for it.
Any college with such a major or masters program should lose their accreditations - disqualified QED.
Disagree. A woman this evil deserves evil things to happen to her. I don't care if she leaked it. She needs pain in her life.
Our side needs to stop trying to be nice or objective to the other side.
It would be virtually impossible to obtain a SCOTUS clerkship without being admitted to the bar and licensed to practice law in at least one state.
Apparently she’s 29 years old, so I would guess she passed the Bar by now, but you never know.
Enjoy being as shitty as liberals.
A lot of states have passed laws which prohibit a criminal from getting wealth as a consequence of their crimes.
If the US Congress has not passed such a law, then when Republicans take over, I think they should.
No money for her. This is how you fight. You *hurt* the enemy and thereby discourage other people to be your enemy.
"Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.Alexander the Great
This. The Ivies are the nursery for the arrogant corrupt "elite" running Washington DC.
“Can journalists and lawyers breed?”
Isn’t that where politicians come from?
Yes, they usually are, and in this Elizabeth Deutsch certainly was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerkA law clerk or a judicial clerk is an individual—generally an attorney—who provides direct assistance and counsel to a judge in making legal determinations and in writing opinions by researching issues before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant roles in the formation of case law through their influence upon judges' decisions.[1][2] Judicial clerks should not be confused with legal clerks (also called "law clerks" in Canada), court clerks, or courtroom deputies who provide secretarial and administrative support to attorneys and/or judges.
except now they are trying to claim it was really leaked to WSJ reporter Ward first.
Nobody said anything about enjoying it, but putting the shoe on the other foot is the best way to convince other people to stop doing bad things.
Till you make them feel the pain of doing wrong, there will be no change in their behavior.
Not proof, but extremely compelling.
They will always go further.
Same reason why identity politics is a failure for our side.
She is, most regrettably, not the only over- educated person lacking any morals.
Plus Breyer is leaving so if she were the leaker, the left would take her in in a heartbeat. This was her act of fealty to her leftwing overlords.
Anyone who graduates law school with a JD is a Lawyer. The bar exam is irrelevant for that definition. An Attorney is someone who is licensed to practice law in a court.
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