The Caroline Of The Catskills - Update

NM can now confirm that Sen. Gillibrand, then Tina Rutnik, did not qualify for the UCLA law review and received no academic prizes in law school. This with her non-membership in the Order of the Coif, a merit society for students in the top 10% of their class, further suggests that the future senator's career-launching judicial clerkship was a political favor to her well-connected family.