Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“Can you imagine what would happen if a Black person who said ‘I hate all white people’ ended up clerking for Sotomayor? You’d never hear the end of it on Fox News. But there’s almost total silence about this.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk
It has probably happened. New York Times had no problem hiring someone who said 'I hate white people.'
Again, the claim about this clerk is false. She was accused, but the blame has been placed elsewhere. The second circuit even investigated the judge that hired her.
Anonymous wrote:“Can you imagine what would happen if a Black person who said ‘I hate all white people’ ended up clerking for Sotomayor? You’d never hear the end of it on Fox News. But there’s almost total silence about this.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk
Anonymous wrote:Here's some more details on what was allegedly said. It does sound like there's a decent argument that her account was hacked and she didn't send the text messages, but I still think it's gross that Thomas hired a law clerk that lived with him for a year. Plus, she went to the law school ranked 32nd in the country....which is not exactly the usual qualifications for the S Ct clerks. The Pryor clerkship is impressive but sounds like she got that job on the strength of the Thomas rec, so it's all pretty circular.
I feel like there's a probably back story behind how she got the job at Turning Point and moved in with the Thomas's after she was fired from Turning Point....
Anonymous wrote:“Can you imagine what would happen if a Black person who said ‘I hate all white people’ ended up clerking for Sotomayor? You’d never hear the end of it on Fox News. But there’s almost total silence about this.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk