If Crystal Clanton has a bunny, she should do everything in her power to make sure Washington Post Associate Editor Ruth Marcus doesn’t boil it. Such is Marcus’ level of unhealthy obsession with the promising young law clerk. Beginning when Clanton was in law school, Marcus has made it her mission to destroy the young woman’s life. She has written piece after piece attempting to harm her career prospects. It’s gotten so unhinged that even liberal law professors are begging her to show some decency.
Clanton graduated Magna Cum Laude from George Mason University’s Scalia Law School. She currently clerks for the distinguished William Pryor, chief judge of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Before that, she clerked for District Judge Corey Maze of the Northern District of Alabama.
“After Judge Maze recounted to me how well Crystal performed in her clerkship on the district court, I had high expectations for her on the Eleventh Circuit,” said Judge Pryor, who has previously been considered for the Supreme Court. “And she exceeded those expectations. Crystal is an outstanding law clerk.”
Clanton has just been announced as one of Justice Clarence Thomas’ clerks for the upcoming term on the Supreme Court.
Marcus has never forgiven Thomas for not sharing her left-wing views, and news of the clerkship enraged her. So she wrote yet another article in The Washington Post this week attacking the young woman. Marcus, who regularly traffics in left-wing conspiracy theories, helped run The Washington Post’s shameful operation to falsely
