{"id":45060,"date":"2020-04-16T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45060"},"modified":"2020-04-16T22:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T02:48:30","slug":"throwback-thursday-coachella-and-gorsuch-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/throwback-thursday-coachella-and-gorsuch-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Coachella and Gorsuch, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly three years ago, I was at Coachella<\/a>, thinking about\u00a0right-winger Neil Gorsuch<\/a>‘s swearing-in to the Supreme Court a few days earlier. In the 1980s, Gorsuch was one year ahead of me at Columbia University<\/a>. While I didn’t know him personally, I knew who he was, because — in addition to founding a conservative campus paper called the Federalist — he wrote contrarian op-ed pieces<\/a> for the Columbia Daily Spectator<\/a>, the established campus newspaper where I was an editor<\/a>. Decades later, he was on the Supreme Court, and I was in the front row for Lady Gaga. “Where did he go wrong?” I joked.<\/p>\n

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Musings on white man affirmative action while at Coachella. #coachella2017 #coachella #nastywoman #selfievideo #politicsasusual #neilgorsuch #undeserving #inadequate #supremecourtjustice<\/a><\/p>\n

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