The case of Clarence Thomas’s new clerk taints the entire judiciary
Justice #Clarence#Thomas has hired #Crystal#Clanton to be one of his law clerks, the most elite assignment a young law school graduate can secure.
The shock is this:
In 2015, when Clanton was 20
and working for a conservative group allied with the justice’s wife, #Ginni Thomas,
Clanton apparently sent racist texts to a fellow employee:
“I HATE BLACK PEOPLE,”
one text read.
“Like f--- them all … I hate blacks. End of story.”
(In Clanton’s text, the expletive was spelled out.)
It is impossible to overstate the prestige that attaches to a Supreme Court clerkship.
The job is a golden ticket awarded to just 36 each year
— about 1 in 1,000 law graduates, the best of the best.
Major law firms lure Supreme Court clerks with signing bonuses of a half-million dollars.
Clanton, who graduated from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in 2022, will be the third high court clerk from that institution since 2021.
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer unearthed Clanton’s texts in 2017, in an article about 🔹 Turning Point USA🔹, the conservative youth organization run by #Charlie#Kirk.
Notably, 🔸Clanton, the group’s field director🔸, didn’t deny writing the texts.
“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 wrote in an email to Mayer.
Kirk: We’ll go down to the planet and …
Spock: ** Theatrical cough **
Kirk: ** Side eyes Spock **
Spock: ** Raises Eyebrow **
Kirk: Fine. Spock, Bones and Scotty will beam down to the planet and run the away mission because apparently I am a “heartless and uncaring leader” according to the ongoing class action suit by the survivors of all those nameless security team members.
First panel of the kitchen backsplash. The scenes are the views out our windows depicting the seasons and recent history of the land around us. This is early spring and the first of the farmers is clearing and working the land. The church was built in 1875 and is now our home.
I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She...
Reminder for all you #StarTrek fans that Kirk and Spock ARE gay for each other! In fact Gene Roddenberry was thinking of Alexander the Great and Hephaistion when he created their characters. And if it weren't for hordes of fans writing Kirk/Spock slashfic and demanding more of the series, we probably wouldn't have the movies and later series. #STTOS#Spirk
Please enjoy this #StarTrek#NIN mashup of Kirk/Spock sexual tension with "Closer" (the "I wanna fuck you like an animal" song). The editing is perfect.
Star Trek - The Original Series - 1966 Complete (archive.org)
I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She...
Minocqua Brewing Company loses operating permit in zoning fight owner calls a political vendetta (www.wpr.org)
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It's Official: Chekov hates Kirk
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