Hags: 2 Supreme Court justices are reportedly bosses from hell on their clerks and staff: new book

 by Monica Showalter

Why are Democrats so loaded with nasty, vicious women?

A new book by respected Washington columnist and editor Mollie Hemingway came out with some doozies of information about the sheer unbearableness of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who are apparently nightmares to work for for all who come into their orbit.

According to the Daily Mail:

In her forthcoming book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, conservative journalist and author Mollie Hemingway lifts the lid on the justices' treatment of clerks. ...

 

 

Hemingway, who spoke with over 100 former clerks and staff for the book, sensationally claims that liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are the worst justices to clerk for.

 

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.

 

Meanwhile, Sotomayor is said to have treated members of the Court's 'permanent staff' like 'valet[s].'

 

There are known 'stories of [Sotomayor] barking at them to help her carry her bags,' per Hemingway's book.

 

Hemingway describes Kagan and Sotomayor's behavior as distinct from their colleagues', and notes that most former clerks and permanent staff members have great opinions of their former bosses.

All the other justices are humane and civilized. But a pair of them has chosen to go the other way, acting like Anna Wintour of 'The Devil Wears Prada' fame (and a top Democrat fundraiser) by abusing those beneath them, confident in their own reflected glory. In some ways, that sounds like Cesar Chavez, albeit not involving sexual predation.

 

But the misery is real enough for those who work under these over-celebrated 'historic firsts' who, like Cesar, have let it go to their heads. Maybe that's the best argument against affirmative action hires, given the frequency of this kind of primadonna-ism.

 

It's probably not impossible that some conservative women have acted this way but I can't think of any instances. But it's very, very common to see such mean, abusive, people on the left.

 

Think of Hillary Clinton throwing her lamps and ashtrays, and ordering staff not to dare look at her, as had been described in Gary Aldrich's expose from the 1990s, Unlimited Access.

 

Think of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, screaming at staff and eating her soup with a comb.

 

Think of former Rep. Katie Porter, hurling a pot full of hot mashed potatoes onto her now-ex-husband and screaming at a staffer to 'get out of my shot' on camera.

 

Think of Jill Biden, known as 'Lady McBiden' who had been reportedly considered 'punishment duty' by Secret Service staff.

 

Think of the late, unlamented Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who drew the dubious honor of 'meanest member of Congress' for her profane and demeaning treatment of her own staff as well as heavy demands on staff to treat her 'like a queen.'

 

Now we have Kagan, who has some psycho thing going on, apparently to see the 'fear' in the eyes of her clerks, and Sotomayor, who treats clerks like wait staff. 

 

It's disgusting, obviously some unfulfilled craving for power over others, which also shows in their rulings and in the activities of all leftists, whose key interest is always in power over others.

 

Now it's getting out, and it ought to dent these harridans' reputations for any kind of judicial fairness. If someone can't treat underlings with just basic decency, why should anyone expect better in their rulings?

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