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Scandal-plagued<\/a> Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas<\/strong> isn\u2019t doing himself any favors. Starting subsequent time period, one among his 4 new legislation clerks can be Crystal Clanton<\/strong>, a recently-minted legislation faculty graduate who was pushed out of a conservative youth group in 2017 after a reporter uncovered virulently racist texts she despatched to a different worker.<\/p>\n The Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, from which Clanton graduated in 2022 and which has cultivated intensive ties<\/a> with the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices, introduced<\/a> the rent on Friday.<\/p>\n The racist feedback stem<\/a> from Clanton\u2019s work for the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, the place she served as nationwide subject director till the summer season of 2017. At the top of that yr, New Yorker<\/em> investigative reporter Jane Mayer unearthed<\/a> a textual content from Clanton to a different TPUSA worker wherein Clanton wrote, \u201cI HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all .\u2009.\u2009. I hate blacks. End of story.\u201d (At the time, Clanton advised the journal that she had \u201cno recollection of these messages and they do not reflect what I believe or who I am and the same was true when I was a teenager.\u201d Clanton would have been 20 when the texts had been despatched.)<\/p>\n Mayer additionally reported that, on one Martin Luther King Jr. Day throughout her tenure, Clanton fired a girl who claimed to be the group\u2019s solely Black worker. On this yr\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it\u2019s value noting, Turning Point founder and CEO Charlie Kirk<\/a>, who has been cozying as much as white nationalists of late, introduced a marketing campaign to discredit the \u201cmythical sainthood\u201d of MLK.<\/p>\n Clanton resigned from the group\u2014Kirk advised Mayer that TPUSA \u201cassessed the situation and took decisive action within 72 hours of being made aware of the issue\u201d\u2014however she quickly discovered new work aiding Thomas\u2019s spouse, Ginni Thomas<\/strong>, a conservative activist who would later play a necessary behind-the-scenes function<\/a> within the try to overturn the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n Vanity Fair\u2019s<\/em> Caleb Ecarma<\/strong>, who reported<\/a> on Clanton\u2019s rent on the time for Mediaite, additionally uncovered further racist remarks Clanton had made to TPUSA staffers, which included one Snapchat picture of a person who seemed to be Arab with the caption, \u201cJust thinking about ways to do another 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n Clanton\u2019s closeness to the Thomas household obtained further scrutiny after she was employed to clerk for Judge William H. Pryor Jr.<\/strong>, a conservative decide who ceaselessly sends clerks to the Supreme Court and was as soon as on Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> shortlist of SCOTUS picks. In response, seven members of Congress demanded<\/a> an investigation into Clanton\u2019s hiring, writing that her clerkship threatened \u201cto undermine the public\u2019s faith in the judiciary seriously\u201d and referred to as into query Pryor\u2019s means to rule impartially \u201cin cases where race, religion or national origin plays a role.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The federal appeals court docket appointed to look into the matter in the end cleared<\/a> Pryor\u2014and a decrease court docket decide for whom Clanton additionally clerked\u2014of wrongdoing, after Pryor claimed he\u2019d discovered that Clanton had been the sufferer of a smear marketing campaign. In its ruling, the court docket stated it didn’t want to contemplate \u201cwhether the information the [judges] elicited and received regarding their hiring decisions was accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n That prompted a rebuke from then-House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler<\/strong>, who penned<\/a> a letter arguing that the choice ignored a well-documented report of Clanton\u2019s bigotry and that the court docket\u2019s refusal to analyze the substance of the allegations went towards \u201cthe judicial misconduct statute\u2019s core purposes of uncovering the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n