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Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 2, 2022, 11:19 p.m. No.16199634   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9635 >>9636 >>9644 >>9645 >>9679 >>9824 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

“The Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax exposed!” - President Donald J. Trump

 

ICYMI: "Clinton campaign officials’ claims undercut, ‘privileged’ info pitched to reporters: Durham"

 

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/26/durham-gps-fusion-employees-emailed-reporters-unve/

 

Truth Social: 108235410570368064

 

 

 

Clinton campaign officials' claims undercut, 'privileged' info pitched to reporters: Durham

 

Special counsel John Durham has revealed that employees of the research firm Fusion GPS sent journalists hundreds of emails with unverified accusations against President Trump to trigger negative news stories.

 

Mr. Durham was responding to efforts of people with ties to Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign to keep potentially explosive evidence out of his hands during the upcoming trial of a Clinton campaign lawyer accused of lying to the FBI.

 

In a court motion filed late Monday, Mr. Durham said the slew of emails undercuts the assertion of Clinton campaign officials that Fusion GPS’s research for them should be protected under attorney-client privilege.

 

The Fusion GPS emails peddled to news outlets, as revealed by Mr. Durham, led to stories including:

 

• A Wall Street Journal article about a Trump adviser meeting with a former KGB official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

• A Washington Post story about a Trump campaign adviser investing in Russia.

 

• New York Times and Reuters articles about the FBI investigating a secret communications setup between Mr. Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank.

 

Republicans seized on Mr. Durham’s revelations. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said the special counsel is exposing the Clinton campaign’s “political dirty tricks.”

 

“We’ve known for quite some time what happened here. And what the Durham indictments are just proving is how not only complicit but the Clinton campaign did this. They literally did this,” Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times.

 

“What the Clinton campaign did in terms of political dirty tricks, we are still putting up with the repercussions. Would Vladimir Putin have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still in office? That’s an interesting question,” he said.

 

Top Clinton campaign officials John Podesta, Robby Mook and Marc Elias have maintained that Fusion GPS provided legal work that should be rendered off-limits to Mr. Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe.

 

They argued in affidavits that Fusion GPS’s work was intended to provide legal advice to avoid liability for defamation or libel.

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 2, 2022, 11:19 p.m. No.16199635   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9679 >>9824 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

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None of the three campaign officials who signed affidavits responded to requests for comment from The Washington Times. A spokesperson for Mrs. Clinton did not return a request for comment.

 

If the material is privileged, Mr. Durham said, then Fusion GPS would have exercised caution before peddling unverified research to reporters.

 

“If rendering such advice was truly the intended purpose of Fusion GPS’s retention, one would also expect the investigative firm to seek permission and/or guidance from [the Clinton campaign] or its counsel before sharing such derogatory materials with the media or otherwise placing them into the public domain,” Mr. Durham wrote in court filings.

 

“In other words, if the purpose of Fusion GPS’s retention was — as Mr. Elias implies — to determine the bounds of what could (and could not) be said publicly without committing libel or defamation, then the record would reflect genuine efforts to remain within those bounds. And it would do so confidentially,” he said.

 

The dispute over Fusion GPS’s activities is whether Mr. Durham can use the information in his case against Michael Sussmann, a Clinton campaign lawyer charged with making false statements to the FBI.

 

Mr. Sussmann is accused of telling a top FBI lawyer that he was not representing a client when he gave the bureau purported evidence linking Mr. Trump to Alfa Bank in 2016.

 

The accusations were later proved false, but only after they had been splashed across the front pages of major newspapers citing anonymous sources familiar with the FBI probe.

 

Mr. Sussmann, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to go to trial next month in a court battle that could reveal more details about the Clinton campaign’s efforts to tie Mr. Trump to Russia.

 

On Tuesday, tech executive Rodney Joffe asked a federal judge to stop Mr. Durham from using as evidence in Mr. Sussmann’s trial four emails he sent to an investigative firm in 2016.

 

Mr. Joffe said the emails are protected by attorney-client privilege because Mr. Sussmann, his attorney, was copied on them.

 

Prosecutors have not charged Mr. Joffe with a crime, but Mr. Durham has said he, Mr. Sussmann and the Clinton campaign formed a “joint venture” to spread damaging and false information about Mr. Trump’s links to Russia.

 

Mr. Durham said the emails are evidence “in furtherance of collaborating and promoting” the Russian bank accusations, not facilitating legal advice.

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 2, 2022, 11:19 p.m. No.16199636   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9679 >>9824 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

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Although the special counsel filed some of Fusion GPS’s communications with reporters under seal, he did detail some emails in his filing Monday.

 

Mr. Durham noted that no lawyers are copied on the emails and no one asked for legal advice. Even if the information were privileged, he said, that protection was waived when Fusion GPS distributed it to the press.

 

In the emails, Fusion GPS employees amplified the findings of former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled and disseminated an anti-Trump dossier filed with unverified and salacious accusations about Mr. Trump’s links to Russia.

 

Some reporters responded with skepticism as Fusion GPS peddled the stories.

 

A July 2016 email from Fusion GPS to a Wall Street Journal reporter touts Mr. Steele’s accusations. “A Trump adviser meeting with a former KGB official close to Putin. … would be huge news,” the filing says.

 

On July 29, 2016, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson emailed a Washington Post reporter claiming that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had investments in Russia.

 

The reporter wrote back that he checked with Moscow sources who said the stories were “bull——” and “impossible.” Mr. Simpson wrote back, “No worries, I don’t expect lots of people to believe it. It is, indeed, hard to believe.”

 

On Oct. 31, 2016, Mr. Simpson sent emails to The New York Times and Reuters pushing the Alfa Bank accusations and claims that the U.S. government was investigating. The email was sent on the same day that Slate and The Times published articles about the purported link between Mr. Trump and Alfa Bank.

 

“Big story on the trump Alfa server moving early pm [Off the record] [United States Government] absolutely investigating. Campaign will light up I imagine,” Mr. Simpson wrote, according to the court filing.

 

• Kerry Picket contributed to this report.

 

• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 2, 2022, 11:52 p.m. No.16199767   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9824 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

Supreme Court Will Strike Down Roe v. Wade, According to Draft Majority Opinion

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down the controversial Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft of the majority opinion reportedly obtained by Politico.

 

A draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico.

 

“The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right,” Politico reported.

 

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

 

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

 

“We, therefore, hold the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito writes in the document, labeled the ‘Opinion of the Court.’

 

Politico reported:

 

Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months,

 

The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.

 

No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.

 

The draft opinion offers an extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades. Some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent. The draft shows that the court is looking to reject Roe’s logic and legal protections.

 

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has reportedly voted to strike down Roe v. Wade pic.twitter.com/htqfLzO0ta

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 3, 2022

 

The Supreme Court is preparing to overturn Roe—the most significant and glorious news of our lifetime. Join me in praying to God for the right outcome.

Life begins at conception. Let’s protect it. pic.twitter.com/SNdb6WUBXO

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) May 3, 2022

 

BREAKING: Report: Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade https://t.co/f671lHnvyP #RoeVWade #abortion

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 3, 2022

 

WOW!!!!!! If true, an incredible development for LIFE!

Maybe we will no longer share abortion laws with North Korea and the People’s Republic of China???https://t.co/TknaSBODVN

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) May 3, 2022

 

Two things:

1. Whoa

2. Who leaked an actual SCOTUS decision draft?! I've never even heard of anything like that.https://t.co/FgD4et6RMK

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 3, 2022

 

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules Boston violated First Amendment in refusing to fly Christian flag among flags of other groupshttps://t.co/Ky0sg9RjwX

 

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 2, 2022

 

The left continues its assault on the Supreme Court with an unprecedented breach of confidentiality, clearly meant to intimidate. The Justices mustn’t give in to this attempt to corrupt the process. Stay strong https://t.co/1Ibbe0t2I3

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 3, 2022

 

So many thoughts on this. 1. IF TRUE, THANK GOD. 2. California, NY and others will now offer partial birth or after birth abortions. 3. Who released this? They should be found and punished if against the law. This is the 1st time in our history. https://t.co/jmH3J9Qnr7

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) May 3, 2022

 

https://conservativebrief.com/suprem-62500/

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 2, 2022, 11:57 p.m. No.16199779   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9824 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071 >>0079

Left Panics That Millions Of Babies Might Live

 

U.S.—Unconsolable wailing was heard across the country today as the left learned that there is a chance Roe v. Wade could be overturned, which would "lead to more babies being allowed to live."

 

The outcry from the left came after a leak from the Supreme Court indicated the justices drafted an opinion overturning Roe, stoking fears that millions more cute infants made in the image of God could be born instead of having their brains sucked out with a vacuum.

 

"Just picture all their cute little faces!" screamed pro-abortion protester Julia McDoubles as she held a sign reading "DOWN WITH THE BABIES" on the steps of the Supreme Court. "If Republicans had had their way over the past few decades, there'd be, like, 60 million more of the precious little darlings! We can't let this happen!"

 

"No more babies! No more babies!"

 

Ocasio-Cortez joined the protesters, crying outside the barricade surrounding the Supreme Court in a dress reading "KILL THE BABIES."

 

At publishing time, Republicans had told the nation's leftists to calm down, as there's "almost zero chance" they actually follow through on their promise to do something about

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/left-panics-that-millions-of-babies-might-live

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:05 a.m. No.16199804   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9811 >>9824 >>9917 >>9947 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

Who is Amit Jain? whats happened Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor?

 

A person called Amit Jain clerks for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. As a Yale student, Jain blasted Yale for supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. Jain was quoted in a 2017 Politico piece by Josh Gerstein. Today, Gerstein published the draft SCOTUS opinion on Roe.

 

Amit Jain of Sequoia Capital India will step down as CEO to pursue entrepreneurship, the blue-chip venture capital firm confirmed in a series of tweets on the microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday.

 

Jain joined Sequoia Capital India in 2019 from global taxi company Uber as part of the growth-stage venture capital firm’s investment business, based in Singapore.

 

A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Stanford University, Jain will continue to serve as Sequoia India’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence while developing plans for his new venture.

 

“Amit joined us from Uber in 2019 and brings a world-class operator perspective to our investment team. He has contributed amazingly to so many startups, leading or co-leading growth rounds and delivering an impressive track record at scale Larger company boards,” Sequoia India said in a statement on Twitter.

 

“Amit is creating a startup with huge potential and belongs to an exciting field. He will be with us as an entrepreneur in residence for some time while he lays out the blueprint for his ambitious new ideas. We will miss He, but couldn’t be more excited about what’s coming,” the venture capital firm added.

 

Our culture is very entrepreneurial, making @Sequoia_India fertile ground for future founders of the entire business.

 

Before joining Sequoia, Jain was head of Asia Pacific at Uber. He is also president of Rent.com, a Los Angeles-based home classifieds site, and has worked at TPG Capital and McKinsey & Company. News of Jain’s ouster comes as Sequoia India is in talks to raise a $2.8 billion fund to increase its venture capital investments in India and Southeast Asia.

 

Over the past year, Sequoia Capital India has promoted five of its senior executives to managing directors to expand its leadership. Ashish Agarwal and Harshjit Sethi from the fund’s venture capital team and Tejeshwi Sharma, Ishaan Mittal and Sakshi Chopra from the growth team have been promoted to the MD level.

 

In July 2020, the global venture capital firm said it had secured a total of $1.35 billion in commitments for two new funds focused on India and Southeast Asia. That includes an $825 million fund focused on investing in growth-stage companies.

 

Sequoia India CEO Shailendra Singh tweeted that he was looking forward to a much-needed solution in the startup funding environment and thankfully talks are refocusing on revenue, product, unit economics and savings.

 

In response to Sequoia’s statement, Jain said: “When you work with super startup teams and founders, it’s hard not to find bugs! I look forward to launching my own startup in the next few weeks.”

 

https://en.memesrandom.com/amit-jain/

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:07 a.m. No.16199809   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9819 >>9824

Top CEOs In The Middle East

Rank: #47

Amit Jain

Sector: Real Estate and Construction

Company: Emaar Properties

Designation: Group CEO

Nationality: Indian

Residence: U.A.E.

 

Jain joined Emaar as the group’s finance leader in 2006, with 22 years of experience in real estate and banking. In 2020, Emaar Properties achieved revenues of $5.4 billion. In April 2020, the company announced that it would donate $27.2 million to the “Social Solidarity Fund Against COVID-19” launched by the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai. Jain is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and he holds a CFA Charter from the CFA Institute, U.S.

 

https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/lists/top-ceos-in-the-middle-east/amit-jain/

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:09 a.m. No.16199815   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9826 >>9870

Who Is Amit Jain? Supreme Court Clerk Who Allegedly Exposed Abortion Draft

by Hemant gunjalMay 3, 2022

 

In this post, know more about Who Is Amit Jain? Supreme Court Clerk Who Allegedly Exposed Abortion Draft.

 

When Amit Jain publicly lambasted Yale for supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s candidacy, he made headlines.

 

Amit, the CEO of Sequoia Capital India, is stepping down to follow his passion for entrepreneurship. In a 2017 post for Politico, Josh Gerstein cited him. Today, Gerstein released the proposed SCOTUS Roe opinion.

 

Amit Jain, the current CEO of Sequoia Capital India, is a Standford University and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi graduate.

 

Amit Jain, the current CEO of Sequoia Capital India, is a Standford University and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi graduate.

 

He declared his desire to resign as CEO of the blue-chip venture capital business lately. Sequoia Capital India made the announcement in a series of tweets.

 

Before joining Sequoia, Amit was the head of Asia Pacific at Uber. He is also the CEO of Rent.com, a Los Angeles-based company. TPG Capital and McKinsey & Company were among Jain’s previous employers.

 

Sequoia India is raising a $2.8 billion fund to expand its enterprise investments in India and Southeast Asia at the time of Jain’s dismissal.

 

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s clerk is Amit Jain, the individual who recently released the abortion draft.

 

Justice Alito’s draft perspective on the legality of abortion is reported to have been leaked by Jain, thereby reversing Roe v. Wade.

 

Since 1973, Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, has remained a bedrock of American law.

 

According to Politico, a leaked predicted majority opinion predicts that the US Supreme Court would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion across the US.

 

The unexpected disclosure by the conservative-majority Supreme Court surprised the country, not least since the court takes pride in keeping its inside conversations private, and leaks are highly rare.

 

After allegations of a leaked abortion draft surfaced on Twitter, people are giving their thoughts on Amit Jain and the case.

 

The vast majority of people are angry about Amits’ leak of Justice Alito’s draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

 

However, it is only rumored that Amit released the information; this has yet to be confirmed.

 

Amit Jain was born and raised in India by his family. He was born and raised in India, where he received his education.

 

Amit seems to be from a lower-middle-class background. His parents’ names and hometown are unknown.

 

It’s uncertain whether Amit was the perpetrator of the abortion draft leak; if he was, further information about him will be published soon.

 

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Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:18 a.m. No.16199843   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9846 >>9849 >>9850 >>9852 >>9854 >>9862 >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

BREAKING: US Supreme Court Has Voted To Strike Down Roe Vs. Wade According To Initial Draft Obtained By Politico

By Patty McMurray | May 2, 2022

 

As I write this article, tears are flowing down my face…

 

In my lifetime, I never thought I would see the day when a majority of Supreme Court Justices would agree that abortion rights should not have been decided in the Supreme Court but instead, left up to the individual states to decide.

 

Thanks to President Donald J. Trump, a historic decision by three of his appointees to the Supreme Court, Justices, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett as well as George W. Bush appointed Justice Alito and George H. W. Bush appointed Thomas, an untold number of lives will be saved.

 

Politico reports – The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

 

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights, and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

 

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

 

Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months.

 

The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.

 

No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.

 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton blasted the leak, calling it “criminal.” In his tweet, Fitton says that he suspects the “criminal leak” happened so that Justices could be intimidated and threatened with violence.

 

The leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe is a dangerous obstruction of justice. And it could very well lead to intimidation and violence directed at Supreme Court justices. Which, I suspect, is the point of the criminal leak.

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 3, 2022

 

Fitton isn’t wrong…the threats are already beginning, starting with an ominous warning from Justice Sotomayor:

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:20 a.m. No.16199846   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

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Sotomayor warned that overturning Wade was essentially terminating the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, and by extension the United States

She was right and we would all be wise to get ready for what happens next

— moby dickgirl (@epistemophagy) May 3, 2022

 

On Dec. 1, 2021, Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the legitimacy of the Supreme Court would endure if it overturned abortion rights during a landmark hearing on a Mississippi law restricting the procedure.

 

“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” Sotomayor said during oral arguments Wednesday morning. “I don’t see how it is possible.”

 

SCOTUS Blog blasted the leak, saying “It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court. in terms of destruction of trust among the Justices and staff.” They added, “This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.”

 

It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) May 3, 2022

 

The draft opinion offers an extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades. Some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent. The draft shows that the court is looking to reject Roe’s logic and legal protections.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

 

A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.

 

The three Democratic-appointed justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – are working on one or more dissents, according to the person. How Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear.

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:21 a.m. No.16199849   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9862 >>9917 >>9931 >>9947 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

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POLITICO received a copy of the draft opinion from a person familiar with the court’s proceedings in the Mississippi case along with other details supporting the authenticity of the document. The draft opinion runs 98 pages, including a 31-page appendix of historical state abortion laws. The document is replete with citations to previous court decisions, books and other authorities, and includes 118 footnotes. The appearances and timing of this draft are consistent with court practice.

 

Republican advisor Matt Wolking is pointing the finger at a Justice Sonia Sotomayor clerk for the leak. While he doesn’t show any clear evidence of his claim, he does lay out a compelling case in his tweet:

 

A person called Amit Jain clerks for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

As a Yale student, Jain blasted Yale for supporting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.

Jain was quoted in a 2017 Politico piece by Josh Gerstein.

Today, Gerstein published the draft SCOTUS opinion on Roe.

— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 3, 2022

 

The disclosure of Alito’s draft majority opinion – a rare breach of Supreme Court secrecy and tradition around its deliberations – comes as all sides in the abortion debate are girding for the ruling. Speculation about the looming decision has been intense since the December oral arguments indicated a majority was inclined to support the Mississippi law.

 

Under longstanding court procedures, justices hold preliminary votes on cases shortly after argument and assign a member of the majority to write a draft of the court’s opinion. The draft is often amended in consultation with other justices, and in some cases the justices change their votes altogether, creating the possibility that the current alignment on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could change.

 

The chief justice typically assigns majority opinions when he is in the majority. When he is not, that decision is typically made by the most senior justice in the majority.

‘Exceptionally weak’

 

A George W. Bush appointee who joined the court in 2006, Alito argues that the 1973 abortion rights ruling was an ill-conceived and deeply flawed decision that invented a right mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and unwisely sought to wrench the contentious issue away from the political branches of government.

 

Alito’s draft ruling would overturn a decision by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that found the Mississippi law ran afoul of Supreme Court precedent by seeking to effectively ban abortions before viability.

 

Roe’s “survey of history ranged from the constitutionally irrelevant to the plainly incorrect,” Alito continues, adding that its reasoning was “exceptionally weak,” and that the original decision has had “damaging consequences.”

 

“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Alito writes.

 

Alito’s skewering of Roe and the endorsement of at least four other justices for that unsparing critique is also a measure of the court’s rightward turn in recent decades. Roe was decided 7-2 in 1973, with five Republican appointees joining two justices nominated by Democratic presidents.

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:21 a.m. No.16199850   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9917 >>0022 >>0045 >>0071

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The overturning of Roe would almost immediately lead to stricter limits on abortion access in large swaths of the South and Midwest, with about half of the states set to immediately impose broad abortion bans. Any state could still legally allow the procedure.

 

“The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” the draft concludes. “Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

 

The draft contains the type of caustic rhetorical flourishes Alito is known for and that has caused Roberts, his fellow Bush appointee, some discomfort in the past.

 

At times, Alito’s draft opinion takes an almost mocking tone as it skewers the majority opinion in Roe, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Richard Nixon appointee who died in 1999.

 

Roe expressed the ‘feel[ing]’ that the Fourteenth Amendment was the provision that did the work, but its message seemed to be that the abortion right could be found somewhere in the Constitution and that specifying its exact location was not of paramount importance,” Alito writes.

 

Alito declares that one of the central tenets of Roe, the “viability” distinction between fetuses not capable of living outside the womb and those which can, “makes no sense.”

 

In several passages, he describes doctors and nurses who terminate pregnancies as “abortionists.”

 

When Roberts voted with liberal jurists in 2020 to block a Louisiana law imposing heavier regulations on abortion clinics, his solo concurrence used the more neutral term “abortion providers.” In contrast, Justice Clarence Thomas used the word “abortionist” 25 times in a solo dissent in the same case.

 

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-874f-dd36-a38c-c74f98520000

Anonymous ID: ab8be6 May 3, 2022, 12:45 a.m. No.16199910   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9911

Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 in Conversation at Liman/LSO Colloquium

 

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 joined Yale Law School alumni from the Liman Center and the Law School’s clinical program in a conversation to open the 25th Annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium on April 7.

 

This year’s colloquium honored both the 25th anniversary of the Liman Center and more than 50 years of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization and Yale Law School’s clinical program. Titled “An Intergenerational Community Committed to Public Service Education and Lawyering,” the event celebrated the achievements of these interconnected programs at Yale Law School and reflected on the challenges of the current moment.

 

Dean Heather K. Gerken joined Muneer Ahmad, Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, and Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Liman Center, who provided brief histories of these programs as part of their welcome of Justice Sotomayor, who had come in 2017 to Yale to launch the Liman Center’s 20th anniversary colloquium.

 

“When I think of the Liman Center’s achievements over the past 25 years — when I think of the Center’s constant drive to transform itself in the name of fighting injustice — I marvel at the power of constant communication and exchange among and between advocates, students, and scholars dedicated to imaginative and persistent public interesting lawyering,” said Gerken.

 

In her opening remarks, Resnik recounted the origins of the Liman Center and its development over the last quarter century, and noted what an honor it was to have Justice Sotomayor in attendance to celebrate the milestone.

 

“I have an amazing job, which is to teach here and to interact with a whole host of people who want to make the world a little bit better than it currently is, and from whom I learn a great deal,” she said.

 

Resnik and Justice Sotomayor were joined in conversation by six Law School alumni who were actively involved in YLS’s clinical program, five of whom are or were Liman Fellows. The group represented a range of talented individuals serving in a variety of careers across the country.

 

The discussion covered a range of issues about the work of the Court. Alicia Bannon ’07, Director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and a 2009 Liman Fellow, brought up the role of amicus briefs. Two current Liman Fellows, Isadora Ruyter-Harcourt ’21 and Kelley Schiffman ’18, touched on the evolution of the justice’s views and dissents. Former Liman Summer Fellow Katherine Munyan ’17 andAmit Jain ’18, current law clerks for Justice Sotomayor,steered the exchange toward public opinion and the relationship between the Court and other branches of government. The topic of public outreach was raised by Judge Holly Thomas ’04, a 2005 Liman Fellow who was recently confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after service on California state courts.

 

The conversation with Justice Sotomayor was part of a three-day colloquium that included a performance by Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 of his play Felon: An American Washi Tale.

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Other panel discussions explored the dynamics of public interest education and lawyering, innovation and entrepreneurialism in promoting equality, the role of protest in contemporary social movements, the interaction and interdependencies of public and private practice, and the roles of fellowships, clinical education, and law schools in contributing to communities and in innovation in legal theory and practice.

 

The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law sponsors an annual colloquium to bring together scholars, students, and a diverse group of lawyers from across the country for discussion. Over more than two decades, the colloquia have addressed an array of topics including the critical role of state courts in access to law, the use of money as punishment, the impact of fines and fees, detention and incarceration, and the impact of legal rules, legal education, and lawyers. These annual conferences are one component of the Liman Center, which promotes access to justice and the fair treatment of individuals and communities seeking to use legal systems. Since its founding, the Liman Center has awarded 170 graduates of Yale Law School one-year fellowships to work on behalf of an array of people interacting with the law. Hundreds of students, from Barnard, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Princeton, Spelman, Stanford, and Yale have held Liman Summer Fellowships. The Center’s sustained research has provided new information on pressing issues in the legal system.

 

The Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO), which began in the early 1970s, provides legal representation to people and organizations who are unable to afford private attorneys. Students, supervised by Yale Law School faculty members, handle a wide variety of casework and policy initiatives on behalf of their clients. LSO students work in fields including criminal defense, sentencing reform, immigration, workers’ rights, housing, community and economic development, veterans legal services, consumer rights, mental health advocacy, and nondiscrimination law. Today, LSO is one of several facets of the clinical program at Yale that does an immense amount of diversified work to improve the lives of people and communities around the country.

 

https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/justice-sonia-sotomayor-79-conversation-limanlso-colloquium

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Meet the Supreme Court's new clerks, 37 millennials set to be the most powerful lawyers, judges, and politicians in the US

Peter Coutu

Oct 4, 2021, 11:13 AM

 

Amit Jain. Jain, a 2018 Yale Law School graduate, clerked for Judge Diana Motz on the 4th Circuit. Katherine Munyan . Munyan, a 2017 Yale Law…

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-newest-supreme-court-clerks-2021-9

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=Public Interests, Private Institutions? Public Policy Challenges to Tax-Free Universities==

02 Jun 2017

Wally Hilke &Amit Jain

 

Abstract. As the increasing concentration of wealth and property in private universities draws attention and criticism, legislators across political parties and jurisdictions are questioning the scope of broad university tax exemptions. Universities have responded by asserting that state and federal constitutional provisions offer their assets perpetual protection from taxation—assets that not only include classrooms and dormitories, but also golf courses, power plants, travel agencies, and health clinics.

 

In response to these arguments, this Essay proposes ways in which states and localities could clarify or challenge sweeping property tax exemptions for private universities, with a special focus on Yale University’s charter and Connecticut state law. The Essay argues that by either clarifying the boundaries of Yale’s property tax exemption or freezing it in place, the Connecticut legislature could—and should—reclaim the state’s fundamental power of taxation and gain leverage for negotiations with Yale, without running afoul of constitutional requirements. The Essay closes with a brief discussion of other universities and communities that could utilize an analogous approach.

 

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Conclusion

 

In response to S.B. 414, Yale’s lawyers took the position that the University’s tax exemption was far-reaching and permanently unchangeable. But given Yale’s remarkable growth since its founding and the passage of the proviso, this claim seems increasingly unsustainable. As legislators and law professors argued during the debate over S.B. 414, the Connecticut legislature may properly clarify the scope of the exemption through legislation without modifying the exemption itself. In doing so, the state could reach beyond the specific enumerated categories in S.B. 414. Further, the novel circumstances presented by Yale’s sheer size and exponential growth, in combination with the sweeping scope of its own interpretation of its tax exemption, suggest new avenues for legislative and judicial challenges, ranging from a mere clarification of state public policy to a freeze on the existing exemption. And given the salience of the national conversation around university tax exemptions, legislatures and advocates in other jurisdictions might consider similar challenges to exemptions enjoyed by other elite universities.

 

Understandably, Yale has demonstrated its intent to oppose any encroachment on the historical construction of its tax exemption. Nevertheless, legislators should rise to the challenge, and will find ample support in history and legal doctrine if they choose to do so.

 

Wally Hilke and Amit Jain are members of the Yale Law School J.D. Class of 2018. We would like to thank our fellow law students Adam Bradlow and R. Henry Weaver for researching this topic alongside us in 2016. We are also indebted to Professor Michael J. Wishnie for his support and feedback, to the other ten professor-signatories on the April 25, 2016, public letter for the same, and to the editors of the Yale Law Journal Forum for their thoughtful comments.

 

Preferred Citation: Wally Hilke & Amit Jain, Public Interests, Private Institutions? Public Policy Challenges to Tax-Free Universities, 127 Yale L.J. F. 94 (2017), http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/public-interests-private-institutions.

 

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/public-interests-private-institutions

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Meet the Supreme Court's new clerks, 37 millennials set to be the most powerful lawyers, judges, and politicians in the US

Peter Coutu

Oct 4, 2021, 11:13 AM

The nine supreme court justices

The nine justices of the US Supreme Court. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Behind the scenes, clerks do research and draft opinions for the Supreme Court's nine justices.

Nearly one-third of this year's class graduated from Yale Law, the court's main feeder school.

At least seven clerks were in the Federalist Society, reflecting the court's conservative majority.

 

The nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court are among the most powerful legal practitioners in the US, ruling on cases that deal with the First Amendment, antitrust regulation, and the death penalty. But behind the scenes, their clerks keep the court running by helping draft early opinions for justices, contributing to decisions on which cases to consider, and preparing their bosses for oral arguments.

 

It's a coveted gig, with many of the industry's highest-performing young attorneys competing against one another for just a few dozen spots. Clerks who go on to work in Big Law firms can earn signing bonuses of up to $400,000 for their experience.

 

Of this year's 37 Supreme Court clerks, nearly one-third graduated from Yale Law School. Others come from the University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School. Most clerked for at least two other federal judges, and many were associates at some of the US's top law firms.

 

The composition of this year's clerk class also reflects the new conservative majority on the court. Three clerks are graduates of Hillsdale College, a small conservative school in Michigan whose home Justice Clarence Thomas has called a "shining city on a hill" for its commitment to liberty and originalist thinking, The New York Times reported. At least seven clerks were active members of their law school's Federalist Society chapters.

 

Here are the clerks of the Supreme Court's 2021-22 term.

 

The clerks' biographical information is sourced from local news articles, LinkedIn pages, law-school press releases and videos, and David Lat's Original Jurisdiction.

Chief Justice John Roberts's Clerks

 

Chief Justice John Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Sam Adkisson

Adkisson graduated in 2018 from Yale Law School and is one of 12 Yale alumni clerking this term.

He previously clerked with Judge Gregory Katsas of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Amul Thapar of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

He was also a law clerk for the US Senate during Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.

 

Christina Kirkpatrick Gay

Gay graduated from the University of Chicago Law School last year and is one of the school's nine recent graduates clerking at the Supreme Court this term. She previously clerked for Judge Britt Grant on the 11th Circuit. In law school, she was a Kirkland & Ellis scholar and a member of the University of Chicago Law Review.

 

Maxwell Gottschall

Gottschall is a 2019 Harvard Law School graduate who previously clerked for Judge Sri Srinivasan for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Judge James Emanuel Boasberg for the US District Court for Washington, DC.

 

Dennis Howe

Howe is a 2018 Harvard Law School graduate and was on the university's law-review staff. He clerked for two judges previously, including Judge Debra Ann Livingston on the 2nd Circuit and Dabney Langhorne Friedrich of the US District Court for DC.

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Justice Clarence Thomas' Clerks

Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File

 

Christopher Goodnow

Goodnow, a 2017 Harvard Law School graduate, was previously an associate at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick and an intern at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He clerked for Katsas of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Judge Diane Sykes of the 7th Circuit.

In law school, he was an editor for The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, which Thomas has written for, according to its website.

 

Steve Lindsay

Lindsay is a 2017 Yale Law School graduate who clerked for Judge Thomas Griffith of the DC Circuit. He was also a 2018 recipient of a Bristow Fellowship, which allows young lawyers to work for one year in the Office of the Solicitor General.

In a video published in 2015 on Yale Law's website, Lindsay said he was particularly interested in questions of constitutional law. He also said he chose Yale in part because of its Federalist Society chapter, which he called "particularly intellectually vibrant."

 

Scott Proctor

Proctor, a 2017 Harvard Law graduate, clerked for Judge Jeffrey Sutton in the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

While in law school, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

 

Manuel Valle

Valle is a 2017 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He was most recently a litigation associate at Sidley Austin.

He previously clerked for Judge Joan Larsen of the 6th Circuit and Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit.

 

Justice Stephen Breyer's Clerks

Justice Stephen Breyer

Justice Stephen Breyer. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Elizabeth Deutsch

A 2016 graduate of Yale Law, Deutsch was recently an associate at Jenner & Block and a Grubber Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union. She has held two previous clerkships, with Judge Nina Pillard of the DC Circuit and Judge J. Paul Oetken of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

She previously wrote for the Yale Daily News, the university's student newspaper.

 

Erika Hoglund

Hoglund, a 2019 Stanford Law School graduate, was recently a summer associate at Boies Schiller Flexner. She clerked for Judge Sidney Thomas of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

While at Stanford, she wrote about her experience representing a detained client during her work with the Immigrant Rights Clinic. Hoglund said the experience taught her the "the power of compassionate legal work to offer humanity, support, and the possibility of vindication to a client navigating an often callous and indifferent immigration system."

 

Diana L. Kim

Kim graduated from Yale Law School in 2017 and clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. She earned a Resnik-Curtis Fellowship, working in New Haven, Connecticut, with the Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services.

 

Joel Wacks

Wacks graduated from the University of Chicago in 2018 and was an associate at Keker, Van Nest & Peters before Breyers hired him as a clerk. He clerked for Judge Charles Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California and Judge Margaret McKeown of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. In law school, he was a Kirkland & Ellis scholar and a Rubenstein scholar.

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Justice Samuel Alito's Clerks

Justice Samuel Alito

Justice Samuel Alito. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Shelby Baird

Baird, a 2018 graduate of Duke University Law, met Alito when taking his seminar on Current Issues in Constitutional Interpretation at Duke.

"I had always admired him before going to law school, but when I took his class I realized that I see the law in a similar way and that inspired me to apply for a clerkship with him," she said in a news release.

She has also clerked for Judge Thomas M. Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit and was an associate at Cooper & Kirk. In law school, she was the notes editor for the Duke Law Journal and president of the Federalist Society chapter there.

 

Elliot Gaiser

Gaiser graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 and held two previous clerkships: Judge Edith Jones of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and Judge Neomi Rao of the DC Circuit.

In law school, Gaiser was a member of the Federalist Society and the Edmund Burke Society, a conservative debating group.

 

Eric Palmer

Palmer, a 2017 Yale Law School graduate, clerked for Chief Judge William Pryor Jr. of the 11th Circuit.

 

Garrett West Jr.

West, a 2018 Yale Law School graduate, has been a summer associate at Sullivan & Cromwell and Bancroft and has clerked for Griffith of the DC Circuit and Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the 9th Circuit.

 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Clerks

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

 

Whitney Brown

Brown held three previous clerkships, with Judge Morgan Christen of the 9th Circuit, Calabresi of the 2nd Circuit, and Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court.

Brown graduated from UCLA School of Law, where she was the editor in chief of its law review. She was most recently a litigation associate at Stoel Rives, and before law school, she was a policy advisor in the Senate and House of Representatives, according to UCLA.

 

Amit Jain

Jain, a 2018 Yale Law School graduate, clerked for Judge Diana Motz on the 4th Circuit.

 

Katherine Munyan

Munyan, a 2017 Yale Law graduate, was most recently an associate in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Supreme Court and appellate group. She clerked for Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York and Judge Robert Allen Katzmann of the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

 

Kelley Schiffman

Schiffman, a 2018 graduate of Yale Law, was recently a Liman fellow with the San Diego County Office of the Primary Public Defender. She clerked for two judges, William Alan Fletcher of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and Keith P. Ellison of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

 

Schiffman was copresident of the Yale Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter and earned a PhD in philosophy from Yale.

Justice Elena Kagan's Clerks

 

Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Elena Kagan. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Jennifer Fischell

Fischell's clerkship with Kagan will be her third, after clerking with Judges Raymond Kethledge of the 6th Circuit and Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York. Fischell graduated from the University of Michigan's law school in 2016 and worked in the civil- and appellate-litigation practice at MoloLamken.

She is one of the few clerks in this term who worked at a boutique firm.

 

Andra Lim

Lim, a former litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, graduated from Stanford Law School in 2019 and previously clerked for Judge Michelle T. Friedland of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Lim was also an extern in San Francisco City Attorney's Office.

 

Christine Smith

Smith, a 2019 Yale Law School graduate, previously clerked for Griffith of the DC Circuit, as have three other clerks in this year's Supreme Court term.

 

Andrew Waks

Waks graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2019 and has held two clerkships, with Judge Gary Feinerman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Judge David Tatel of the DC Circuit.

 

In law school, Waks was a Rubenstein scholar, a Kirkland & Ellis scholar, and an editor of the school's law review.

Justice Neil Gorsuch's Clerks

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Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch

Justice Neil Gorsuch. Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images

 

Stephanie Barclay

Barclay graduated from Brigham Young University's law school in 2011 and appears to be one of the oldest Supreme Court clerks of this term. She was an associate law professor at BYU from 2018 to 2020, when she joined Notre Dame's law school, where she directs the Religious Liberty Initiative.

She previously clerked for Judge N. Randy Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She was also a litigator for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and an associate at Covington & Burling.

 

Louis Capozzi

Capozzi graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's law school in 2019 and has held two previous clerkships. He clerked for Judge Anthony Scirica of the 3rd Circuit and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th Circuit.

Capozzi, a former summer associate at Gibson Dunn, was the executive editor at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the president of Penn Law's chapter of the Federalist Society.

 

Mark Storslee

Storslee is one of few law professors to have earned a Supreme Court clerkship this fall. At Penn State Law, he teaches courses on civil procedure, the federal courts, constitutional law, and the First Amendment. His research focuses on religious freedom and freedom of speech.

He previously served as executive director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and clerked for O'Scannlain in the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He graduated in 2015 from Stanford University's law school.

 

John Henry Thompson

Thompson, another University of Chicago graduate, recently completed his one-year term in the Office of the Solicitor General as a Bristow fellow. He held two previous clerkships: for Griffith of the DC Circuit and for Sykes of the 7th Circuit.

In law school, Thomson was a Kirkland & Ellis scholar, a member of the Federalist Society, and a member of the college's law review.

 

Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Clerks

Brett Kavanaugh

Justice Brett Kavanaugh. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

 

Alexa Baltes

Baltes clerked for then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett — her former law professor — on the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

Baltes is a former basketball player for Illinois Wesleyan University who was a NCAA Woman of the Year finalist in 2014. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2017 and clerked for Judge Raymond W. Gruender of 8th Circuit.

 

Athie Livas

After graduating from Yale Law School in 2019, Livas clerked for Thapar of the 6th Circuit, one of two of Kavanaugh's clerks to have done so. She also clerked for Langhorne Friedrich of the US District Court for DC.

Her selection has received some criticism, with Above the Law reporting that she signed a letter of support from the Yale community for Kavanaugh during his heated confirmation hearings.

While at Yale, Livas was the president of the school's Federalist Society chapter.

 

Jenna Pavelec

Pavelec graduated from Yale Law School in 2017 and worked as an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff, a boutique litigation firm. She clerked for Thapar of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and for Kethledge of the 6th Circuit before earning a clerkship with Kavanaugh.

 

Sarah Welch

Welch is a former Phillips fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General who graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2019. She clerked for Pryor of the 11th Circuit and for Sutton of the 6th Circuit.

 

In law school, Welch was a Kirkland & Ellis scholar, vice president of the school's Federalist Society chapter, and an articles editor on its law review.

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Clerks

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Erin Schaff/AFP via Getty Images

 

Libby Stropko Baird

Baird graduated from the University of Virginia's law school in 2019 and clerked for Judge Kevin C. Newsom of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and for Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the US District Court for DC.

She was the Virginia Law Review's articles editor.

 

Michael Heckmann

Heckmann, a 2016 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, was an associate at Latham & Watkins before earning a clerkship with Barrett. He previously clerked for the newest justice when she was on the 7th Circuit. He was the managing online editor for the university's law review.

 

Max Schulman

Schulman worked as an associate at Gibson Dunn after graduating from Harvard Law School in 2017. Before Gibson Dunn, he clerked for Katsas of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and for Judge Sidney Stein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

While at Harvard, he was an editor of the school's law review.

 

Zachary Tyree

Tyree graduated in 2017 from the George Washington University Law School, where he was the managing editor for the school's law review. He clerked for Larsen of the Michigan Supreme Court in 2017 and for Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in 2018.

He was a summer associate at Gibson Dunn in 2016 and an attorney-advisor for the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel before earning the clerkship with Barrett.

Before law school, Tyree interned at the conservative Family Research Council.

 

"Our rights come first from God," he told Politico after the Supreme Court's 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores decision. "The government must protect those rights."

(Retired) Justice Anthony Kennedy's Clerks

 

Justice Anthony Kennedy

Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

 

Elizabeth Nielson

While they no longer sit on the bench, it's customary for some retired justices to hire a clerk.

Nielson graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2019 and has since clerked for Sutton of the 6th Circuit. She was the book-review and symposium editor for the University of Chicago Law Review.

Her father, Judge Howard Nielson of the US District Court for the District of Utah, clerked for Kennedy in 1998.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-newest-supreme-court-clerks-2021-9