More on Underneath Their Robes (which apparently none of my readers are interested in, because nobody’s commenting about it, but it’s my blog and I don’t care):
– “How Appealing” interviews Jeffrey Toobin, who wrote the piece for the New Yorker:
Q. Was it David Lat’s decision to go public, or did you plan to reveal his identity whether he cooperated or not?
A. This was entirely David’s decision. I actually met with him once, and we had a discussion about whether he should reveal himself. He then decided to go ahead, and we had a formal, on the record interview on another occasion.
– Anonymous blog can’t find judicial funny bone (from today’s Bergen (NJ) Record):
It turns out the voice behind A3G is a 30-year-old assistant federal prosecutor in Newark. His name is David Lat.
Lat, who sounded uneasy with his newfound fame Monday, quickly said he would need to check with his employer this time around before talking. A few minutes later, he politely declined to comment.
Michael Drewniak, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, also declined to comment.
Then, at about 5 p.m. Monday, the blog had been removed.
What that meant for Lat was unclear.
I used to read it sometimes — pretty unfortunate that it’s now gone.
We can’t all be SCOTUS geeks.
So, did they can him?
He was not fired, but A3G herself is in serious trouble. Since she was supportive to me on UTR, I have been posting about the situation on my blog
samuelalito.blogspot.com
I was actually fascinated, but by the time I caught up to the story, the blog was password protected and now, I guess, deleted.
Are we to believe that this is the same Samuel Alito who’s up for the Supremes?
Why doesn’t anyone think it’s funny that this person who doted over boys and wrote as a female was actually a gay (and presumably) Republican who tried to get a clerkship with Antonin Scalia? I think the real story is whether Scalia discriminated against him in not offering him a clerkship, not to mention the gender-identity issues. :)