Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course. When one has been exposed in this way, and has been tethered (despite caveats) to something as momentous as this leak, it can seriously impede one's career options going forward.
I have represented extremely well-credentialed associates (including clerks) who are "internet famous" in a similarly negative light, and that is, without a doubt, an impediment to employment. In fact, if you Google the names of the clerks accused in these viral threads, instead of actual information about them, you will now find pages and pages of aggregator websites saying things like "X is Justice Sotomayor's clerk who is accused of releasing the Supreme Court's draft" and "Y, a Supreme Court Clerk, is accused of putting his/her job in jeopardy in order to uncover the truth about the abortion draft." This is solely based on these tweets.Īs a partner at the biggest legal recruiting company in the world, I have placed hundreds of law firm associates. Some of the clerks subject to this speculation may reasonably feel that their personal safety is endangered by their identification. Regardless of the preamble to these threads (stating that this is educated conjecture, not accusation), identifying these clerks as "suspicious" to huge audiences could do palpable damage to their well-being and careers. What we tweet is profoundly public - it's replicable and potentially weaponizable. Twitter is often described as the internet's town square. To call this attenuated would be generous. RELATED: Anti-abortion zealots target Sotomayor aide as source of leak: Their threats are no joke The clerks identified in their widely read threads are those who work for the court's three "liberal" justices. Most of the threads have included legalistic caveats that they are not intended as accusations and that they are effectively researched speculation. The evidence offered includes the topic of a clerk's master's thesis, where the individual went to school and their major and - it seems - their personal identities as nonwhite and/or female.
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They have (mostly) named female clerks and male clerks of color, included their pictures, their full names and their educational histories.
They have been retweeted by popular voices supportive of Donald Trump, with large MAGA followings. The authors of these threads have been predominantly conservative, middle-aged white men, many with law degrees. There have been several Twitter threads, viewed by millions of eyes, purporting to suggest (but allegedly not to "dox") the identity of the leaker. On the other side, including conservative #LawTwitter, it has been entirely consumed by the leak - and specifically by the identity of the leaker. On one side, it has been substantive: women sharing their abortion stories and pleading for bodily autonomy, and doctors expressing concern about potential criminal penalties for performing the procedure. Wade, the public reaction - especially on social media - has been swift and impassioned. With last week's leak of the draft Supreme Court decision effectively overturning Roe v.
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