#SCOTUS clerks are… the sort of ambitious #lawyers likely to wield significant #influence in their post-clerk lives. What makes #Justice#ClarenceThomas’s #clerks so remarkable… is their success as loyal standard-bearers of his singular #ideology. …an examination of what the justice & his wife call #ThomasClerkWorld, based on interviews w/people in & around it & a review of private emails & the Thomases’ public stmnts, shows how meticulously the couple have cultivated the network over decades.