Posted on 10/08/2018 3:19:41 PM PDT by Eddie01
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His first day on the job, Kavanaugh hired as many black law clerks as Ginsburg has in her entire tenure
Justice Brett Kavanaugh has hired a black law clerk for his new chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, matching Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s record of African-American clerkship hiring during her tenure on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.
With his first clerkship hires, Kavanaugh also set a gender composition record, an apparent attempt to buck the high court’s hiring patterns, which tend to favor white, male graduates of elite law schools.
Since joining the high court in 1993, Ginsburg has hired over 100 law clerks, just one of whom is black.
Ginsburg’s hiring practices have been criticized for decades. During her 1993 confirmation hearings, GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah asked Ginsburg if a court might reasonably conclude that a small business in a majority black city that hired 57 white employees and zero black employees over a period of years was discriminatory. Ginsburg dodged, before Hatch pointed out that was in fact her own record of clerkship hiring in her 13 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
“I will try harder, and if you confirm me for this job my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve,” Ginsburg replied, to much laughter throughout the hearing chamber.
Kavanaugh’s new clerks are Shannon Grammel, Megan Lacy, Sara Nommensen and Kim Jackson. These hires set a record in a second respect: Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court justice to hire an all female class of clerks.
A 2017 study published in the National Law Journal found that 85 percent of all Supreme Court clerks between 2005 and 2017 were white, and approximately two-thirds were male.
Just hours after the Senate narrowly confirmed the new justice, Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy in a private, intimate ceremony at the court. He quietly began work on Sunday, taking over a suite of offices formerly occupied by Justice Samuel Alito.
I wish they had not published the clerks names. The poor ladies are now going to be targeted by the Looney Left.
And we all know that its not the color of your skin but the content of your character
Not much diversity there.
And now we wait and see if any of these clerks will show more loyalty to feminism and social justice than to the man who gave them a chance.
Gender discrimination. I’m for merit more than diversity as a hiring criterion. Were these four more qualified than all male candidates? If so, great. If not, this is diversity theater from our new Great Judicial Hope.
Yes but notable is his record of deliberately avoiding the other 51 different genders, as well as his 0% hiring of transgendered muslin women.
See!!! There is the proof that he molests women! Plus, he only has to pay them 60% or the wage a guy would get. /s
There was a nice video of two of his former clerks (both female) talking about how great he was to work for - gave them time off for family, weddings, etc. The one said she still calls him for advice. In his testimony he said how he always had a lot of friends that are female. For whatever reason that sounds true in his profession as well.
I don’t care what color they are or whether they are male or female, I only care if they believe in the Constitution as literally written, believe in original intent and are extremely capable.
Skin color obsession is bad for America.
Crap like this makes me sick. What difference does it make what color skin they have?
A little too PC for me. If he’s pandering to his critics, it won’t work. They still will hate him and try to destroy him.
The left will simply refer to them as Aunt Jemima 1, Aunt Jemima 2, Aunt Jemima 3, and so on...
So, notorious R-B-G is also a notorious R-A-C-I-S-T.
We do. But to the left, "Your skin color is your uniform."
I hope this is not a sign that he will spend his time on the court trying to appease the left and get them to like him.
“Jail bait!”
I hope he isn’t virtue signaling.
It was due to a critical mass of Sodomite law clerks that Kennedy was flipped. SCOTUS lives in their own little bubble and think that their law clerks represent America. It gets worse the longer they are on the court, with possible exceptions for justices who have strong moral grounding such as Clarence Thomas.
I refuse to delegitimize Kavanaugh’s picks for any reason.
Just sayin’ the plantation owners can’t seem to make it happen on their own.
My understanding, these women were picked prior to the circus.
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