Crystal Clanton got one of the most prestigious gigs in the country for a law school graduate: she was one of 36 people each year chosen to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice. In her case, per the Washington Post, it was for one of her ideological idols, Clarence Thomas.
The fact that she had worked for Turning Point USA, a group supported by Thomas’s insurrectionist wife, Ginni, prior to going to law school could have outweighed what would have likely been uncovered in any basic background check: a 2017 story from her time as field director for Turning Point when she texted a friend a series of racist screeds including one reading, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all … I hate blacks. End of story.”
Clanton didn’t deny sending the texts, responding to the New Yorker writer’s inquiry by saying, “I have no 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.” She was, however, fired by Turning Point USA withing three days of the article being published, presumably because the group prefers its racism less overt.