1/ High-profile Yale Law professor Amy Chua, aka the "Tiger Mother," has been stripped of certain teaching duties after allegations of misconduct (which she forcefully denies).
2/ In this lengthy post for Original Jurisdiction, I take a deep dive into the clerk hiring patterns of the past four #SCOTUS justices to retire, as well Justice Breyer's own past practice, and conclude that there's an 80-20 percent chance he'll retire soon.
1/ Two clerks isn’t that many, and if he were to retire, Justice Breyer could keep one clerk as a retired justice and defer the other to the following Term. #SCOTUS#appellatetwitter
2/ Retired justices get one clerk, to help them if they sit on circuit courts, write books, etc. Clerks to retired justices also get farmed out to active justices to work on #SCOTUS cases. #appellatetwitter
3/ But if Justice Breyer has hired more than two clerks for the future, which is what I’m now trying to find out — well, that might be more revealing (or might not; Justice Kennedy hired a full class of clerks and retired anyway). #scotus#appellatetwitter
1/ A year ago today is when I was admitted to @nyulangone because I couldn’t breathe, thanks to what turned out to be #COVID19 (but we didn’t know that at the time; it was early in the #CoronavirusPandemic, and I hadn’t been tested yet).
2/ I didn’t want to go to the hospital, even though I was having a hard time breathing and my mom and husband were telling me to go. I finally went when my husband said that if I didn’t go, he’d call me an ambulance.
3/ I was so weak, it took me forever just to leave the apartment. I went from my bed to the dining table, from the dining table to the living room couch, from the living room couch to the door (and our apartment is not that big).
1/ A year after #COVID19, I still have greatly reduced cardiovascular endurance, even though I’ve been back to exercise for months. Jogging a short distance at a slow pace sends my heart rate over 170, which never used to happen. #LongCovid#longhaulers
2/ I was enrolled in the study back when I was hospitalized at @nyulangone. This view from the waiting room today is pretty much the same view I had from my hospital bed.
1/ The Capitol attack has led to a lot of soul-searching on the right -- including some behind-the-scenes drama and deliberation at the Federalist Society. Here's my take on how @FedSoc should respond to the events of January 6.
3/ Thanks to @chrislhayes for this kind mention of my Original Jurisdiction post about @FedSoc on @allinwithchris tonight, which he used as the jumping-off point for interviewing @GTConway3d about where conservatives go from here.