Annals of Privilege

I would be cool with a teen murderer getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. I think there's good reason we expunge juvenile records, and would raise the expungement age to 21.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 14, 2018

Somehow I find myself imagining this YA novel:

Nobody knows this—they don't release juvenile offenders' names, and expunge the records once you've done your time—and now that I'm on the Supreme Court, it probably sounds a little weird, but I was pretty messed up before I went to college. In fact I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die. It was really bad judgment, what can I say? I still feel bad about it all the time, to be honest. But it's important for kids to understand that you can rise above the mistakes you make in life, and if you go to the right law school and clerk with the right judges, there's no limit to what you can accomplish. So I've decided to tell my story...