Another former law student has come forward to confirm that Yale law professor Amy Chua, who has endorsed Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, advised students seeking to clerk for the judge that Kavanaugh liked female law students with a "certain look" or "model-like" femininity.
The male student, who asked not to be identified, said that when he approached Chua about his interest in clerking for Kavanaugh, the professor said it was “great”, but then added that Kavanaugh “tends to hire women who are generally attractive and then likes to send them to [supreme court Chief Justice John] Roberts”. [...]
The student alleged that Chua then added: “I don’t think it is a sexual thing, but [Kavanaugh] likes to have pretty clerks.” [...]
“[Two other students] got the same advice: ‘He likes girls who are pretty’,” the student said. “Another girl … she got the same advice, and [Chua told her] to wear heels.”
In a public letter, Chua angrily denied giving students such advice. The statements of this new witness put those denials in a bad light.
Even Kavanaugh's allies have tended to paint him as someone who surrounds himself with, and is therefore a champion of, women and young girls. He coaches, he has groomed many female clerks for bigger things, pay no attention to a judicial history that has argued for severe curtailment of women's rights both in the workplace and in their private lives. That it has apparently been known for years that Kavanaugh made hiring decisions based on the perceived attractiveness of the women applying for jobs adds an unsavory undertone to his supposed role as champion.
One story being told about Kavanaugh is that of a gentlemanly conservative volunteer athletic coach and carpooler with a level head and definite, if strong, opinions on what America should be like and how to get there. The other story is of a high-school blackout drunk who attempted at least one rape, went on to join a college "party" fraternity known for virulent public and private misogyny, soon afterwards carving out a niche for himself in conservatism as aggressive Ken Starr conspiracy-monger, Republican legal fixer, and eventual judge holding career-making or career-ending power over whichever women he found personally attractive–at every step, being elevated to more powerful roles in American society despite his actions and with the protection of like-minded friends and allies.
Both stories are certainly true. That is how these things tend to work; we have seen this story play out time and time again.