"Clanton is, on paper, exactly the kind of young lawyer who is supposed to represent the best of the profession. She landed a series of extraordinarily prestigious clerkships: first with Judge Corey Maze of the Northern District of Alabama, then with Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor, and ultimately with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That's a golden ticket path most law students would kill for."
"That's right, Clanton used to work at conservative student group Turning Point USA. But in 2017, reports surfaced that she texted coworkers, "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story." Despite this notoriety, this was far from the end of Clanton's story. She bounced back with a job with Ginni Thomas (Clarence's wife), even moving in with the Thomases for a time."
"David Lat found the answer, and it is exactly what you'd expect. Crystal Clanton is now an attorney at the America First Legal Foundation (AFL), the aggressively partisan conservative nonprofit law firm co-founded in 2021 by Gene Hamilton and Stephen Miller shortly after the end of the first Trump administration. Hamilton is back at AFL after a six-month White House stint and serves as its president."
Crystal Clanton obtained a sequence of prestigious clerkships, culminating with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She was fired from Turning Point USA after racist texts she sent coworkers became public, including an explicit message declaring hatred of Black people. She later worked for Ginni Thomas and lived with the Thomases, gained admission to George Mason University's ASS Law, and completed successive clerkships. Investigations into the judges' hiring decisions found no misconduct. After her Supreme Court clerkship ended, she joined the America First Legal Foundation, a partisan conservative nonprofit co-founded by Gene Hamilton and Stephen Miller.
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