Poppagator said, in part:

After all, she went directly from the overwhelmingly Black-and-Hispanic South Bronx to the Ivy League, then law school, and then directly to high-level prosecutorial positions and judicial clerkships and the federal bench.

I think you have--I hope merely mistakenly--misstated her history, as I have understood it.

After law school she did not go to either high-level prosecutorial positions or judicial clerkships, and the federal bench was quite a ways down the road.

She did, as I understand, go from law school to prosecutorial functions, yes. But as an Assistant United States Attorney, which for a recent law graduate is hardly "high level", especially in prosecuting misdemeanors, which was her first field of assignment. That's entry level, not high level. She certainly, with her academic standing, could have gone the judicial clerkship route, which is the way ambitious and brilliant young lawyers very often desire to go; instead, she chose to go the low road, to fight in the trenches, so to speak.

If my understanding of her history is wrong, I stand to be corrected.

Dave Oesterreich