NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Yale Law School put out a news release this summer congratulating Brett Kavanaugh, class of 1990, on his nomination to the Supreme Court, hundreds of students and alums expressed outrage. In an open letter, they blasted the institution for praising Kavanaugh’s professionalism and service to the law school while overlooking what they described as ‘the true stakes of his nomination’…The law school, among the nation’s most prestigious, had issued similar pro forma statements congratulating other prominent alumni on their accomplishments, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was nominated to the high court by President Barack Obama in 2009. But the protest elicited by the anodyne statement about Kavanaugh’s nomination was a preview of what was to come. In recent weeks, a school long known as a breeding ground for activists has emerged as the epicenter of the Kavanaugh resistance.”
–Eliana Johnson, “Yale turns on Kavanaugh,” Politico, September 26, 2018 9:04 pm