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20 Apr, 15 tweets, 14 min read
1/ Justice Amy Coney Barrett has landed a $2 million advance for her first book. #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
2/ ACB's advance is more than the $1.5 million that Justice Clarence Thomas received for his memoir, My Grandfather's Son (but that was back in 2007). CT's book went on to become a #1 bestseller.

bit.ly/32tQT1n #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
3/ ACB's advance is also more than the $1.2 million that Justice Sonia Sotomayor received in 2010 for her memoir, My Beloved World, which also went on to become a #1 bestseller.

on.wsj.com/3egKkVe #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
4/ It looks like Justice Sotomayor earned out her seven-figure advance. Per @publicintegrity, Justice Sotomayor earned $1.9 million in book-related revenue in 2012.

bit.ly/3tDe9pk

#SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
5/ Will Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book become a bestseller?

Per @dlippman of @politico, the book's "about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule."

Hmm....

politi.co/2QlKiDF #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter
6/ Described in those terms, Justice Barrett's book sounds like a retread of A Matter of Interpretation, the book about statutory/constitutional interpretation by ACB's late boss and mentor, Justice Scalia.

#SCOTUS #appellatetwitter amzn.to/3ape0OI
7/ I think a straight-up memoir by Justice Barrett, or maybe a book of parenting advice -- e.g., "How To Raise 7 Kids While Rising Up To The Supreme Court" -- might sell a bit better.

#SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
8/ This isn't the only money coming ACB's way.

Justice Barrett and her husband Jesse Barrett recently sold their home in South Bend (listed for $899,900, final sale price unclear).

fxn.ws/2Padfls #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter
9/ As the parents of 7 kids, who presumably need a roof over their heads and eventually college tuition, Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Jesse Barrett can certainly use the $2 million!

#SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
10/ In response to this thread, I’ve been advised by folks who know Justice Barrett that the @politico description by @dlippman doesn’t tell the whole story about the book. #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
11/ The book was apparently inspired by all the questions Justice Barrett received in letters, etc. when she was nominated. There is some civic education in it, but that’s not all. #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #books
12/ Yes, ACB will discuss the role of #scotus and judges in society, but “it’s not a book of high theory” and “it’s not A Matter of Interpretation 2.0,” sources tell me. And there will be lots of personal stuff in it. #scotus #appellatetwitter #books
13/ Here’s more about Justice Barrett’s book deal from @JoshMBlackman, who has heard things consistent with what I’ve heard, and who has additional (somewhat critical) thoughts on #SCOTUS justices writing #books. #appellatetwitter

bit.ly/3xcx4tq
14/ One more data point: Justice Neil Gorsuch received an advance of at least $225,000 for his book, A Republic, If You Can Keep It.

bit.ly/3dEG8j7 #SCOTUS #AppellateTwitter #books
15/ Justice Gorsuch’s book didn’t do as well as the Thomas and Sotomayor memoirs, spending just 1 week on the @nytimes bestseller list, at #14.

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After a life-threatening case of #covid19, and more than a month after shot #2 of the #COVID19Vaccine, I’m barely positive for antibodies.👇👇👇

In this thread, some background and a few thoughts.

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1/ THREAD. Today, about 7 months after my last visit and a year after getting out of the hospital, I went to the pulmonologist for a check-up (a new pulmonologist who works with many post-Covid patients). #covid19 #covid #coronavirus #longcovid
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9 Apr
1/ Will Justice Breyer retire from the Supreme Court sometime soon?

His law clerk hiring says, to quote the Magic 8 ball: "Most likely."

bit.ly/3t4GXqt #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter
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.
3/ My post contains shout-outs to, among others, @LindaHirshman1 @adamliptak @OrinKerr @DahliaLithwick @marksherman @shermancourt @NinaTotenberg. #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter
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8 Apr
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).

My story for Original Jurisdiction:

bit.ly/3mthy7C @AmyChua @YaleLawSch
2/ In an open letter (linked to in my story), Professor Chua raises issues of due process and possible breaches of confidentiality by @YaleLawSch.

See also this tweet by @AmyChua herself (part of a longer thread):

3/ Some of her allies claim that @AmyChua is being "canceled" for holding unpopular positions (e.g., having supported Brett Kavanaugh).

Here's lawyer turned journalist @MegynKelly:

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8 Apr
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
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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).

#COVID #Covid_19
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.

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