The devil wears Kagan

 Don Surber  

"Another mean girl liberal icon treats staff like, well, you know what"

"Mollie Hemingway is promoting her new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.

"But the biggest revelation in the book is how Justice Elena Kagan bullies her staff. Hemingway discovered Kagan and to a lesser extent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, have a reputation for being mean girl bosses.

"The Daily Mail reported:

Hemingway alleges that several of Kagan’s former clerks, along with others at the Court, have described her as “emotionally abusive,” “demanding, demoralizing, demeaning,” and “a hard a**.”’

‘Kagan’s clerks had fear in their eyes,’ Hemingway said someone who clerked for a different justice recounted to her.

Other former aides speculated that there is ‘something psychological going on there,’ Hemingway writes.

Other clerks compared Kagan to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, moving from ‘extremely kind to extremely angry,’ Hemingway claims.

Another former staffer said Kagan is ‘like Klobuchar’—a reference to Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was the subject of a New York Times article about her alleged poor treatment of her staff.

"Ah yes, Senator Klobuchar (horse whinnies).

"That NYT story from 2019 said:

Most of those interviewed for this article—describing memories that span from shortly after her election in 2006 to the much more recent past—discussed their time with Ms. Klobuchar on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the senator. These concerns were not idle, they said. Saving potentially damaging emails from Ms. Klobuchar became something of a last-day ritual, the aides said, in case they ever needed evidence of her conduct for their own reputational protection.

She was known to throw office objects in frustration, including binders and phones, in the direction of aides, they said. Low-level employees were asked to perform duties they described as demeaning, like washing her dishes or other cleaning—a possible violation of Senate ethics rules, according to veterans of the chamber. . ..

The Daily Mail reported:

Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, Hemingway says, is among the most beloved by staff.

‘He knows everybody’s name. He doesn’t just know their name. He knows when they’re having a new grandchild or where they grew up. He really, really cares about people,’ Hemingway writes.

Turning to the subject of her book, Justice Alito, Hemingway said that he’s more reserved than people expect, but still ‘very kind to the staff and clerks at the Court.’    

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