Even though conservative law clerk Crystal Clanton has a history of sending racist texts, the federal courts won’t be investigating her disturbing past.
Clanton played a vital role in Turning Point USA in 2015 and 2016, Charlie Kirk’s conservative nonprofit that worked to court young people. Clanton managed to turn her beliefs into a gig that would land her appearances on Fox News.
However, in 2017 the New Yorker revealed that she had sent a friend the text: “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like f**k them all.” There were other messages that were sent when she was in college which were confirmed by the Washington Post last year.
Clanton told the New Yorker: “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.” However, the messages were sent when she was 20 years old.
Despite her alarming past, Clanton somehow managed to live with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni. She also obtained clerkships with two federal judges following her law school stint; one with Judge Corey Maze and Judge William Pryor.
Of course, racist white people constantly fail up in this country, so this didn’t come as a full surprise. What was surprising, though, is that in 2022 a federal judicial panel ordered that an investigation be launched into Clanton’s past.
However, Pryor and Maze argued earlier this week that the panel didn’t have the authority to demand an investigation. Thomas, who is one of the most unethical judges the Supreme Court has ever seen, defended Clanton’s past.
“I know Crystal Clanton and I know bigotry,” he wrote. “Bigotry is antithetical to her nature.” He also insisted that Clanton was a victim of “defamation.” Despite Clanton’s hateful behavior, whiteness will continue to protects her as well as Black folks like Thomas who will uphold it at all costs.