Federal Judges That Hired The ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Law School Student Cleared Of Misconduct

Federal Judges That Hired The ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Law School Student Cleared Of Misconduct

The judges were found to have done their due diligence.

It’s been a hot minute (two months) since we’ve talked about future federal clerk Crystal Clanton, but there’s an update.

As you may recall, Clanton used to work at conservative student group Turning Point USA. But then in 2017, reports surfaced that she texted co-workers, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.” And she was out at Turning Point USA. There were more reports of bigoted comments from Clanton, but she managed to bounce back with a job with Ginni Thomas (Clarence’s wife). She then was admitted to ASSLaw — otherwise known as George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, for the uninitiated — and will graduate this semester. Her post-graduation plans include some incredibly prestigious clerkships — with Judge Corey Maze of the Northern District of Alabama next year and Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor for 2023-24.

Given her rather notorious history, members of Congress demanded an investigation into Clanton’s hiring, saying litigants and attorneys before the judges “are left with the impression that the judiciary is comfortable turning a blind eye to the hiring of an individual with a pattern of making racist and discriminatory remarks in precisely the forum the federal courts—where there is supposed to be justice for the victims of such discrimination.”

And, like I thought back in November, not much has come of the investigation.