In the wake of a letter from some 200 Yale Law students and alumni blasting President Trump’s Supreme Court pick of Brett Kavanaugh, a competing group has put out its own letter in support of the nominee.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, more than 100 Yale Law students, alumni and faculty signed the pro-Kavanaugh letter, saying they “are proud” of the Yale Law graduate’s nomination and “believe that his accomplishments and qualifications speak for themselves.”
That’s a stark contrast to the anti-Kavanaugh statement which alleges the nominee “presents an emergency — for democratic life, for our safety and freedom, for the future of our country.” It even claims people will die — DIE!! — if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the high court.
Kavanaugh’s Yale Law supporters say the nominee “is eminently qualified to serve as a Supreme Court justice […] has demonstrated a principled approach to interpreting the law[,] has reached legal conclusions free of political partisanship [and] has devoted his professional life to upholding the rule of law and our Constitution.”
In a statement, the school said its news release was nothing out of the ordinary: “Yale Law School is a nonpartisan institution. We routinely acknowledge high-profile nominations of our alumni. We did exactly the same thing not so long ago when Justice Sonia Sotomayor ‘79 received her nomination to the High Court.”
Colleges, of course, routinely brag about the accomplishments of prominent alumni, and several Yale Law professors told The Chronicle they saw nothing unusual about the news release.
But the competing letters have drawn considerable attention to Yale Law, among whose alumni are three current Supreme Court justices: Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel A. Alito. …
[Alumna Alexandra] Brodsky said the letter endorsing Kavanaugh is “unsurprising” but doesn’t change her opinion.
“Like Yale’s release, this letter does not grapple with the stakes of Kavanaugh’s nomination,” she said. “In fact, it in no way engages with his legal track record or the ways in which, as a justice, he would influence the court. As we write in our initial letter, credentials on their own are not enough for such an important position. I don’t care if Kavanaugh coaches his daughter’s basketball team. I care if my daughter won’t be able to have a safe, legal abortion because of him.”
As noted by The Fix, Ms. Brodsky is a co-founder of Know Your IX, which believes the country “is permeated” by rape culture.
Some of the notable signatories to the pro-Kavanaugh letter include Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, the Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg, and David Bernstein of The Volokh Conspiracy.
Read the full CHE story and pro-Kavanaugh letter.
h/t to Legal Insurrection.
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