Yale Law professor Amy Chua, best known for her controversial 2011 parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, praised Brett Kavanaugh as a great "mentor to women" in a Wall Street Journal op-ed three days after President Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2018, then defended him again after women accused him of sexual assault. Chua, a member of Yale Law's clerkship committee, noted in her op-ed that her daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, graduating from Yale Law, was supposed to start her appellate clerkship with Kavanaugh that summer. Some people found Chua's op-ed a little self-serving at the time.
Chua mentioning that her daughter will "probably be looking for a different clerkship" is her way of suggesting "she isn't entirely self-interested" because "her daughter will be out of a job," Elie Mystal wrote at Above the Law in July 2018. But that's only credible to people "who don't know how the game is played."
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