Stanford’s Anand Argues Whistleblower Case in High Court Debut

Easha Anand, who argued her first Supreme Court case Tuesday, wanted to be a mathematician until a Yale abstract algebra class she took alongside an elementary school-age prodigy convinced her she wasn’t cut out for it.

“This kid was kind of complaining he’d spent 10 hours on this problem set and I remember having this revelation, and being like ‘Oh my god. You could spend 10 years on this problem set and still be ahead of me,” she said.

Anand became a newspaper reporter instead, ultimately working for the Wall Street Journal before taking a job as a capital defense ...