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Heidi Li Feldman Aug 11, 2023

U.S. #law schools should discourage students from applying for clerkships with #ClarenceThomas; faculty should refuse to recommend students for those clerkships; firms and other legal employers should refuse to hire people who have chosen to clerk for Thomas starting this year (when the large extent of his corruption became known). To do otherwise is to be complicit with Thomas’s unethical conduct. #LawFedi #LegalEthics #JudicialEthics

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Karl Auerbach Aug 11, 2023

@heidilifeldman An interesting law review article would be to re-examine every case thomas took part on and re-count the votes without him.

Every SCOTUS case in which thomas''s vote changed the outcome could be considered tainted and lose its precedental weight.

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@karlauerbach @heidilifeldman I wonder how it would go over with a court if I were to argue that they didn't need to follow a 5-4 Supreme Court case in which Thomas was in the majority and which supported the interests of his billionaire buddies. I'm guessing not well. Tempting, though.