I always get kinda Tyler Durden-ish whenever I think about the Supreme Court. Ever since the 2000 debacle trust in the judiciary has skewed downward. The power they abused in that Presidential election has now come to bite them in the proverbial ass and all of us will suffer for it for years to come.
That's why I was kinda surprised to read an admitted federal judicial starf***er's post about incoming law clerk for Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Danielle Gray. She seems like the kind of person the Justices and other young people need to be hanging around. Maybe the new over-achieving Black chick will be able to knock to sense into the heads of her soon to be power-broker colleagues. (And please do not confuse her with Chantel Febus , a Janice Rogers Brown in training, clerking and trading lynch mob stories with Justice Clarence Thomas).
1. Danielle Gray (Harvard '03/Garland '03-'04)
Tidbits:
(a) after clerking for Big Pimpin' Feeder Judge Merrick Garland, Danielle Gray worked on the policy staff of Barack Obama's Senate campaign, then joined the Washington office of O'Melveny & Myers (her current place of employment);
(b) originally from Long Island, she went down south to Duke for college;
(c) not surprisingly, she is "an ardent Blue Devils fan," who "adores J.J. Redick and most of all Coach K";
(d) "she performed superbly in a 1L Ames [moot court] competition against two current members of the Elect, Michael Gottlieb and [Dorothy] Hien Tran (who were also outstanding, and who are now Danielle's good friends)";
(e) Danielle "came up with an incisive interpretation of Shaw v. Reno during a Law of Democracy class at Harvard Law School that was thereafter known as the 'Gray Thesis' (I'm not positive, but the Gray Thesis may have shown up on the exam)";
(f) she was one of the three primary authors of the Harvard BLSA (Black Law Students Association) amicus brief in Grutter v. Bollinger;
(g) she was voted "most likely to be a Supreme Court justice" by the HLS class of 2003 (the honor won by future Stevens clerk Sam Spital in 2004);
(h) she has "a keen sense of humor"; and
(i) she is "an all-around delightful person," "one of the most charming people you'll ever meet" -- "[i]f you don't like Danielle, you are per se a bad person!"
It's nice to see people like Ms. Gray having a chance to clerk despite the cheap-labor conservatives who have taken over the courts.
Underneath Their Robes has profiles of all the the folks who will be clerking at the Supreme Court, organized by justice: WHR, JPS, SOC, AS, AMK, DHS, CT, RBG, SGB. Very interesting reading.
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