The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh–who demonstrated the dark side of his temperament at hearings today, much to the delight of Trump–have spilled over into his alma mater, Yale Law School. Kavanaugh loves to trumpet his record on hiring female law clerks, yet there may be a very non-Boy Scout reason: YLS clerk-vetter and Tiger Mom Amy Chua appears to have been coaching female prospects in both dress and demeanor, telling them it is “no accident” that BK’s clerks “look like models.” Chua is, sadly, now hospitalized with a serious, unspecified condition, but she managed to issue a denial this week which included a strong statement of support for BT, a denial which elicited charges of lying from past and current YLS female students.

Chua’s husband, Jed Rubenfeld, has, without saying why, advised female students to avoid clerking for BK or for Alex Kozinski, who retired as a Ninth Circuit Appeals Court judge last year amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct and innuendo. BK himself clerked for Kozinski, and stands out as perhaps the only former Kozinski clerk, male or female, who did not notice any inappropriate emails or actions in that office. Did he learn more than law from his mentor?

In any case, Rubenfeld may have been trying to cosy up to the female YLS students as much as to warn them, because Yale has hired a Title IX investigator to look into him for behaviors such as “excessive drinking with students.” Meanwhile, the student protest has expanded into demands for action on the part of YLS administrators to actively purge sexual harassment from both faculty and clerking referrals.

While expressing concern about the internal situation, YLS officially is not only a staunch supporter of alumnus BK’s Supreme Court nomination, but also completely silent on the accusations by Dr. Christine Blaseley Ford and others. Dr. Ford testified bravely before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, then the same group had a frat boy pile-on in the afternoon.

Women still have suffrage, at least.