At this week's Round Table, Isaiah, Madeline, and Olivia spoke with Laura Wolk, senior associate at Kirkland & Ellis, who was most recently a clerk for Clarence Thomas in the U.S. Supreme Court--where she was only the second blind clerk in the Court’s history. Laura was mentored at the University of Notre Dame Law School by now Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, for whom Laura testified at her recent hearings. In the course of the hearings, originalism--the doctrine embraced by Coney Barrett and HER mentor Justice Scalia-- was referenced, but Laura was troubled that no time was given to what originalism really is, so she was eager to provide us with a deep dive into it. We delved into what judicial reforms Laura would and wouldn’t like to see, what it’s like to work for the Supreme Court, and why her training as a singer and a psychologist was the best prep she could have hoped for. Thank you for joining us!
