sewn ya sotomayor and samuel alito. the kind of pathway to power goes through law school, but it goes through professors who can recommend students for all kinds of opportunities, chief among them the clerkships. if you get one of these clerkships on the supreme court, it puts you on a glide path. in corporate law, it can involve a $400,000 bonus just to sign a deal with a law firm. six of the nine supreme court justices clerked on the supreme court court themselves. it might even lead you to the supreme court. it s sort of a pipeline to a lot of the powers that be right now. so for two individuals who happen to be married to each other, happen to be pretty colorful characters to now stand accused of abusing that power by
getting at there? sure. i think that s the core message of the piece, the core tension that comes up in the piece, to say that the students at yale law school are some of the most dazzling resumes in the country. they arrive there, they want the prestige, they want the access to the clerkships, they want to clerk on the supreme court, maybe be the attorney general. but at the same time, they re protesting the way that these powerful baubles are being handed out. for example, are they being handed out on the basis of favoritism, who the professor likes to party with? are they being handed out on the basis of illegal ways. coming up at the top of the hour, kim jong-un has strong opinions about k-pop. we ll get into it.
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