it doesn t matter how many women he surrounds himself with, can t make me forget the testimony of doctor christine ford. i don t know if his clerks don t believe doctor for really don t care but neither makes me happy to have these women close to the levers of power. there are a lot of women who thought the story didn t add up about doctor ford s story and these clerks, some of his many women clerks were out there supporting him during the confirmation process. his record as an appellate judge and lifelong support of women in law is one of those things we have seen when you have someone with a decade on the bench. there are not a lot of surprises, doing the same things we saw from his long tenure on the dc circuit, he is following law, and is one of the leaders in supporting women for the bench. that is why you have one of the most prolific arguers which justice ginsburg said we don t have enough of. she is very liberal, so we can trust to apply the law fairly and that is what we hav
ultra-elite judges. like all of the clerks. almost all the clerks. i think it s nice he did this. i think we remember supreme court justice not for their clerks. i m less interested in who he s hiring and more interested in whether he s going to apply the law fairly to everyone. shannon: i think we agree that should be the way going to assess her justice. above the law.com, writing the headline is i don t give a flying thing how many women law clerks brett kavanaugh harris. she goes on to write it doesn t matter how many women he surrounds himself with. it can t make me forget the testimony of christine blasey ford. i don t know if his clerks don t believe dr. forker don t care but neither makes me happy. there are a lot of women who thought there was a lot of things that didn t add up about christine blasey ford s story. some women clerks were the ones
the top echelon of legal opportunities or opportunities for law students. and he s done that by hiring more women clerks than any other judge, a greater number of women clerks than male clerks, a greater number of diverse clerks than other judges. so this doesn t come as much of a surprise at all to anyone familiar with him. and how did he treat you? he was excellent to me. actually, i m a pretty good example of something he described at his confirmation hearing. he talked about how one of the ways he tries to level that playing field is by looking outside the traditional, conventional pipeline of clerks, the sort of elite few professors who, let s say, recommend the most clerks, the people coming from the law reviews at the top law schools. i did not meet the judge through the traditional channels and when i met him, i was not planning to clerk. i didn t think it was consistent with some of my other life goals at that time. i was a little bit earlier than the average law graduate,
clerks. all four are women. if confirmed, i ll be the first justice in the history of the supreme court to have a group of all-women law clerks. let me bring back sarah pitlick. she clerked for then judge kavanaugh on the court of appeals, from 2010 to 2011. so, sarah, welcome back to you. you know, we ve heard justice kavanaugh, you know, certainly talking about the women who deeply influenced him, as he was introduced to the country by the president. he spoke about, also, women who he s hired in the past like you. what s your reaction to him bringing on all women clerks? well, it s not at all a surprise to anyone who s been a part of his clerkship recruitment process. as he described in detail in his confirmation hearings, he has always really since assuming the bench in 2006, he has always paid special attention to trying to level the play iing field fo
justice kavanaugh will have an asterisk i think is just that. ainsley: with your experience what did you think judge kavanaugh making good on promise hiring all four of his clerks are going to be women. someone who has frequently had a lot of women clerks. he feels very strongly about encouraging women this their careers first time in history that a supreme court justice will have had all female clerks. take that justice ginsburg. ainsley: a lot of women looking at one poll, a lot of women saying republican women that they are going to go to the polls very important for the midterm election to go to the polls and democrats, it s actually gone down. if you look at this poll. it s npr and pbs marist poll. in july 81% of democratic women said it was important for them to go to the polls. now, look at october. 79%. slightly down. for republican women 71 percent said it was important? july. now 83% say october. what are your thoughts? do you think that s accurate? yeah.