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The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

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In 2023, a young speechwriter for the presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida suffered a seemingly devastating career setback.

Within days of Nate Hochman’s promotion of a pro-DeSantis video that flashed an image embraced by white supremacists, public outcry grew, and he was among a group of staff members fired by the campaign.

But Mr. Hochman’s career was not over. Within a year, he was making videos with America 2100, a right-wing advocacy group with ties to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Then came a stint working for a Republican senator on Capitol Hill.

This year, Mr. Hochman took a position as a senior aide to one of the most powerful figures in the federal government. He joined the State Department under Mr. Rubio and now works as deputy director of the agency’s policy planning office. According to Mr. Hochman’s email signature, he is also Mr. Rubio’s chief speechwriter.

Mr. Hochman did not respond to a request for comment.

“Nate Hochman is a trusted and key member of the department who has worked tirelessly to advance the president’s foreign policy agenda,” Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement.

Mr. Hochman’s trajectory is far from unique in today’s Washington. He has joined the growing ranks of those who have found that a public controversy — even one associated with a high-profile dismissal — is not disqualifying for entry into the top ranks of the Trump administration.

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President Donald Trump has pardoned a sheriff from Virginia — who happens to be a stalwart MAGA supporter — after his conviction of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes.

Trump announced the pardon in a Truth Social post on Monday.

He declared that former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins would receive a "full and unconditional" pardon in the Memorial Day social media missive.

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Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after he was convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and bribery last December, according to the Daily Beast.

The president used some familiar terminology to describe Jenkins' experience with the U.S. justice system. Trump claimed the bribed sheriff had been "dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden” Department of Justice.

“This Sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail,” Trump wrote. “He is a wonderful person, who was persecuted by the Radical Left ‘monsters,’ and left for dead.”

The president said instead of sitting in a cell, Jenkins will instead have a "wonderful and productive life."

Prior to losing an election in 2023 for the sheriff’s job, Jenkins had been Culpeper County's top law enforcement officer for more than a decade.

That long career fell apart after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia brought allegations against Jenkins accusing him of taking tens of thousands of dollars worth of bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen from Northern Virginia as auxiliary sheriffs. The businessmen reportedly weren't interested in enforcing the law, but rather skirting traffic tickets and carrying concealed guns without the need for a permit, according to prosecutors.

Officials said that none of the men who paid for the positions were trained for the roles, or vetted, and none ever rendered any kind of law enforcement service to the sheriff's department.

“We hold our elected law enforcement officials to a higher standard of conduct, and this case proves that when those officials use their authority for unjust personal enrichment, the Department of Justice will hold them accountable,” Acting U.S. Attorney Zachary Lee said in March after Jenkins' conviction.

Jenkins has connections to the MAGA world through the Claremont Institute, a far-right think tank where he was one of eight sheriffs selected as fellows. The institute's membership includes a number of former Trump officials.

In April, Jenkins insisted if he could talk to someone in the Trump administration, he could get help in his case.

"I truly believe if I could get an hour of time with someone in the administration, and lay out some facts with my attorney” it could spare him prison, Jenkins said during a webinar hosted by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. "I believe wholeheartedly in the president. I believe if he heard the information, I know he would help if he knew my story."

It appears he was right.

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please forgive my failure to post for the past few weeks. You can read here why I’ve had trouble accessing the basics of water, power, and internet. We are doing much better, however, and thank you to everyone who sent me notes.

On October 30, the Claremont Institute is presenting its “sheriff award” to Sheriff Bill Waybourn of Tarrant County. You know, the one who let a baby die in his jail. I wanted to also give my readers a list of the 2024 Claremont Sheriff Fellows. I will write more about each sheriff later, but do want people to know if your sheriff is on the list. (Since I started writing about the Claremont Sheriff Fellowship, Claremont has refused to make the names public.)

They are:

Al Auxier, Kendall County, Texas

Marquis Cantu, Llano County, Texas

Thaddeus Cleveland, Terrell County, Texas

Mark Crider, Walla Walla County, Washington

Damon Devereaux, Logan County, Oklahoma

Max Dorsey, Chester County, South Carolina

Jeff Gahler, Harford County, Maryland

Richard Hickox, Churchill County, Nevada

Gordon Smith, Bradford County, Florida

Bob Songer, Klickitat County, Washington

Rick Staly, Flager County, Florida

Clinton CJ Walters, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Chris West, Canadian County, Oklahoma

I’ll point to a few trends. First of all, Ryan Williams’s fever dream of the West is plainly alive, given the number from Texas, Oklahoma, and Washington. Second, there are at least a handful of CSPOA members or affiliates on this list as well as one sheriff who was present on January 6, plus multiple sheriffs credibly accused or misconduct. As I’ve written before, however, these all appear to be requirements to be a Claremont Sheriff Fellow, not a barrier.

There is a chapter in my book* all about the Claremont Sheriff Fellows, which I consider at this point the greatest threat to not just democracy but the safety of communities.

Let me know in the comments if you have information on these sheriffs. I’ll write more about each one as well as the specifics of the fellowship this week.

*I am still donating to Mutual Aid in Asheville if you send me proof of purchase of the book, any version.

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of all the right-wing think tanks in the United States, the most overtly MAGA has been the California-based Claremont Institute. Claremont, founded in 1979, was around long before former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. But a think tank that was once identified with traditional Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater conservatism has, in recent years, moved to the far right and fully embraced the MAGA ideology and the "America First" agenda — much to the dismay of former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen and other Never Trump conservatives.

Claremont draws vehement criticism from both the left and the Never Trump right.In an article published by the liberal/progressive-oriented The Nation on March 30, journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire emphasizes that Claremont is helping to shape the "anti-woke" obsessions of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"Claremont's leaders have marshaled so much early support behind DeSantis because they see him as a staunch ally in thwarting the alleged march of 'wokeism' through virtually every American institution: the media, corporations, and education, from pre-K through college," Berkshire explains. "They view DeSantis' legislative assault on diversity and inclusion — including stripping the Walt Disney Company of some state tax breaks, reversing diversity policies, and sharply curtailing discussions of race and gender in Florida schools — as amodel for right-wing activism across the country.Claremont and DeSantis both are holding forth Florida as a red-state template — a militant Republican state government providing a 'blueprint' for rolling back civil rights across the country."

READ MORE:How MAGA zealotry overtook a conservative think tank: report

Although the Florida governor has yet to make a formal announcement, he appears to be gearing up for a 2024 presidential run. And Berkshire emphasizes that DeSantis' "brain trust" is "stocked with Claremonsters," including Christopher Rufo (who advised DeSantis on Florida's Stop Woke Act) and the Florida governor's new speechwriter Nate Hochman.

"When DeSantis officially launches his candidacy," Berkshire explains, "he'll point to a long list of right-wing policy accomplishments. But using the levers of power to ram through an unpopular agenda is not the same thing as winning over hearts and minds. As he sells a retrograde vision of America with the help of a militant right-wing intellectual cadre, DeSantis is likely to learn that lesson the hard way."

READ MORE:'Real men don’t eat soybeans': How the 'weird right' is hijacking the GOP and conservative think tanks

Read The Nation's full report at this link.

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it was the latest stop on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s “where woke goes to die” tour. The focus was on higher education—specifically: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Florida universities. The roundtable event featured speakers like Christopher Rufo, the lead architect of the GOP’s crusade against critical race theorywho is now helping to mastermind the ideological makeover of Florida’s New College. The gathering followed the by-now-standard script of education-themed right-wing grievance: DEI initiatives are a scam orchestrated by the “woke mob,” and Florida is not about to submit to them—not if the governor and his brain trust have anything to say about it.

The event would make headlines after an Axiosreporter called the official press release “propaganda” and was fired as a result. But the ensuing furor over journalistic standards sidestepped what’s ultimately at stake in DeSantis’s war on the alleged woke excesses of the education establishment—a drive to deliver colleges and universities back to the rule of white male elites, and thereby turn back the clock on 75 years of progress.And at the center of this crusade is a West Coast bastion of cultural conservatism—the Claremont Institute, which served as a key intellectual recruiting ground for Donald Trump’s rise to power but has now shifted its allegiance to DeSantis.

DeSantis’s agenda was neatly distilled in the title of a new report by Claremont fellow Scott Yenor, who teaches political science at Boise State University: “Florida Universities: From Woke to Professionalism.” The paper was released in conjunction with theDEIroundtable, and claimed to document the unhinged course of DEI initiatives in Florida’s public university system, while also detailing steps the state can take to rein them in. Among Yenor’s recommendations: defund and dismantle all DEI offices in Florida’s colleges and universities, make collecting data on the basis of race and sex illegal, and scuttle any DEI-infused disciplines—education and law are particular targets—in favor of “science.” And that’s just the start. “From Woke to Professionalism” seeks to provide a playbook for Florida to go to war against the “reigning national civil rights regime.”

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The report’s pivot away from DEI-bashing to the systematic purge of female students is part of Yenor’s ambitious proposal to correct what he sees as the damage done by feminism. Last year, he gave a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in which he denounced colleges and universities as “the citadels of our gynocracy,” and derided career-oriented women as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome.” Traditionally male-dominated fields such as engineering, law, and medicine should stop trying to recruit women, he argued. The culture should return to urging women to pursue “feminine goals”—chief among them, staying home and having children in the interest of restoring strong families, and through them, a strong nation. Yenor’s bid to dragoon the nation’s women back into the separate sphere of domesticity and child-rearing is but one key directive he’s undertaken as head of Claremont’s Center for the American Way of Life. Together with Rufo—another Claremont scholar—Yenor has been dispatched to the Sunshine State front lines in what Claremont director Ryan Williams calls the “fight against woke leftism.” He will serve as Claremont’s new senior director of state coalitions, based in the state capital of Tallahassee.

Claremont’s leaders have marshaled so much early support behind DeSantis because they see him as a staunch ally in thwarting the alleged march of “wokeism” through virtually every American institution: the media, corporations, and education, from pre-K through college. They view DeSantis’s legislative assault on diversity and inclusion—including stripping the Walt Disney Company of some state tax breaks, reversing diversity policies, and sharply curtailing discussions of race and gender in Florida schools—as a model for right-wing activism across the country. Claremont and DeSantis both are holding forth Florida as a red-state template—a militant Republican state government providing a “blueprint” for rolling back civil rights across the country.

this tight ideological alliance explains why DeSantis’s brain trust is stocked with Claremonsters, as the think tank’s staff and fellows refer to themselves, who now play an outsized role in shaping policy. Rufo, for example, advised DeSantis on his Stop WOKE Act, which prohibits schools, colleges and businesses from teaching students and employees anything that would cause anyone to “feel guilt, anguish or any form of psychological distress” due to their race, color, sex or national origin. And when DeSantis orchestrated a takeover of New College, he tapped Rufo to lead the effort to remake the school as a “Hillsdale of the south,” referencing the fundamentalist Michigan college long positioned on the vanguard of right-wing culture warfare.

Even DeSantis’s new speechwriter has Claremont ties. Nate Hochman, a rising star in the intellectual right’s amorphous coalition of culture warriors, self-proclaimed economic populists, and unabashed America firsters, is both a former Claremont intern and a fellow. Hochman, who proclaimed earlier this year that he hopes that the “Republican party agenda is going to cohere around the culture war as its organizing, totalizing force,” now will be able to bring that mandate into the forefront of DeSantis’s campaign messaging.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Claremonsters will continue chipping away at what they see as Florida’s misguided dalliances with the woke. In his road map for higher education in Florida, Yenor holds up as his model the University of California, Berkeley–in the 1950s, before the Free Speech movement and the hippies wrecked everything. The University of Florida, he writes, should be a beacon of academic freedom and meritocracy for the country, just as UC Berkeley was back then. Of course, UC Berkeley was also an elite, and almost entirely white, institution in the 1950s. Some 90 percent of entering freshmen in the 1960s were white, and most hailed from families that were substantially wealthier than the typical Californian. And just one-quarter of students were women. For them, the school offered a 10-week course on marriage, jokingly known to students as “From Courtship to Venereal Disease in Ten Easy Lessons.”

Elsewhere, Yenor has argued more explicitly that returning college to the elites should be the goal. Only 8 percent of Americans attended college as late as 1960, he pointed out in a recent op-ed for the Christian advocacy organization American Reformer. “The United States should move toward 8% from its current 46%.”

“Too many of the wrong sorts of people go to college” is not exactly the stuff of campaign bumper stickers. DeSantis knows this firsthand, thanks to his ill-considered effort to escalate Florida’s assault on AP African American Studies into a full-scale attack on “Advanced Placement, Inc.” No doubt DeSantis and his corps of culture warriors calculated that the entire Advanced Placement program was a ripe target in the rolling war on wokeness, but the move was a political disaster. Parents in Florida regard AP classes not as a manufactory of left-wing ideological conformity but as a crucial path to getting their kids admitted to select colleges—and saving money when they get there. And they’re not wrong—so the politically savvy DeSantis has since moved on to other targets.

nor does Yenor’s wide-ranging campaign against the “gynocracy” seem likely to resonate with the suburban women to whom the GOP tries intermittently to appeal. As Daily Beast columnist Michael Daly pointed out, DeSantis’s wife, Casey, who tweeted enthusiastically about Yenor’s Tallahassee appointment, holds a BA in economics—one of the disciplines Yenor regards as subject to gynocratic infiltration. And her mother is a speech pathologist—another of the female-dominated fields that he wants dismantled.

There are also growing signs that DeSantis’s war on wokeness is losing its luster among Florida voters. A recent poll found that his marquee bill aimed at rooting out diversity efforts in the state’s higher education system is particularly unpopular. Sixty-five percent of voters, including 38 percent of Republicans, oppose it. And as his signature issue—limiting what students can learn and teachers can teach in Florida’s public schools in the name of parent rights—becomes synonymous with book banning, his popularity is likely to dim further.

Of course, the GOP supermajority in the Florida state legislature will continue to rubber-stamp increasingly outlandish bills on gender and diversity, regardless of whether the public supports them. Indeed, the pliant legislative body is a big reason Claremont is so bullish on Florida spearheading the nation’s return to the pre–civil rights era.

When DeSantis officially launches his candidacy, he’ll point to a long list of right-wing policy accomplishments. But using the levers of power to ram through an unpopular agenda is not the same thing as winning over hearts and minds. As he sells a retrograde vision of America with the help of a militant right-wing intellectual cadre, DeSantis is likely to learn that lesson the hard way.

Jennifer C. BerkshireJennifer C. Berkshire hosts the education podcast Have You Heard. She is the author, with Jack Schneider, of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door.

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Established in 1979, the Publius Fellowship was designed to instill in new generations of Americans that same attention to the higher principles of politics.

*The Claremont Institute extends warm gratitude to Henry Salvatori, Chairman of the Henry Salvatori Foundation, for providing a generous endowment fund to sponsor the Henry Salvatori Program for the American Founding. Under this program the Claremont Institute produces publications and holds educational seminars for teachers, students, journalists and business leaders on the principles and practices of free government as understood by America’s Founders. This includes Claremont’s Publius Fellowship.

2024 Lincoln Fellowship: Thursday, August 1st – Saturday, August 10th.

All incoming Lincoln Fellows will be awarded: a $700 travel stipend and lodging for the entire duration of the Fellowship. Most meals will also be provided.

As its name implies, the Lincoln Fellowship Program places special emphasis on the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, no less than the American Founders, believed that free government is possible only if it recognizes and protects the equal natural rights of all human beings. Fellows discuss how the statesmanship and political thought of the Founders and Lincoln should guide policymakers today.

During their stay, Lincoln fellows meet with the Claremont Institute’s Senior Fellows and other distinguished visiting scholars to study American politics and political thought. In intensive daily seminars and relaxed evening symposia, fellows discuss a wide selection of great American readings. Topics of study and discussion include the Founding, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, the Great Society, and the enduring modern disputes between liberalism and conservatism. Fellows will also meet editors and writers of our flagship publication, the Claremont Review of Books.

After their participation, Fellows will be invited to attend Institute events and seminars in and around the nation’s capital, at which they will be honored.

Who Should Apply?

Lincoln Fellowships are offered to patriotic young professionals including, but not limited to, employees of the United States government and state governments, public policy research institutions, and print and broadcast media.

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*The Claremont Institute extends warm gratitude to the Bowen Educational Trust for its generous sponsorship of the Lincoln Fellowship program. William H. Bowen was an American entrepreneur and patriot, and his educational foundation has long been a generous patron of the Claremont Institute.

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2024 John Marshall Fellowship: Saturday, August 10th – Sunday, August 18th.

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The John Marshall Fellowship, CCJ’s flagship program, is seven days of intensive seminars in American political thought and jurisprudence. Sessions are taught by a core faculty of John Eastman, Ronald J. Pestritto, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Matthew Peterson, and John Yoo. During the program, John Marshall Fellows learn about and discuss political philosophy, American government, and American history with a specific focus on the origins and development of American constitutional jurisprudence.

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Annika Boone will soon clerk for Judge Ryan Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She will next clerk for Justice Thomas Lee of the Utah Supreme Court. During law school, she worked at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, the Civil Appeals division of the Utah Attorney General’s Office, and DLA Piper. As a law student, she was president of the Harvard Federalist Society and an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. She has co-authored an article forthcoming in the Arizona Law Review. Boone holds a B.A. in political communication from George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Nicholas Caluda recently finished a clerkship with Judge Edith Brown Clement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He previously clerked for Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He will join Quinn Emmanuel’s Houston office in the fall of 2019. While in law school, he worked as a summer associate at Baker Botts in Dallas and interned for First Liberty Institute. He served as the executive articles editor on the Notre Dame Law Review and was a Dean’s Circle Fellow. Caluda holds a B.A. in politics from the University of Dallas and a J.D. from the Notre Dame Law School.

Michael Cotton is a J.D. student at the University of Texas School of Law, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review and the executive editor of the Texas Review of Law & Politics. After law school, he will clerk for Judge Don Willett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. During law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Solicitor General of Texas, an intern for Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and as a summer associate at Beck Redden LLP. Cotton holds a B.A. in creative writing from Columbia University.

Josh Craddock recently finished clerking for Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Previously, he worked as a summer associate at Latham & Watkins LLP and Bancroft PLLC, and led the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy as editor-in-chief of its fortieth anniversary volume. Prior to law school, Mr. Craddock managed advocacy teams for several non-profit organizations at the United Nations and participated in negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals. He has been a contributor to National Review, First Things, Public Discourse, and Providence Magazine. Craddock holds a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from The King’s College and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.

Josh Craddock is a Jack Roth Charitable Foundation John Marshall Fellow for 2019

Nicholas M. Gallagher will clerk for Judge Danny Boggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit starting in September 2019. He is a future graduate of NYU Law School, where he is editor-in-chief of the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, vice president of the Federalist Society, and a Bradley Foundation Fellow. In 2018, Nicholas served as a legislative law clerk for the Senate Judiciary Committee during the nomination Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States. He also worked as a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Gallagher was a staff writer at The American Interest and research assistant to Walter Russell Mead. Gallagher has a B.A. from the University of Oxford in classics & English.

Nicholas Gallagher is a Richard and Debbie Verheij John Marshall Fellow for 2019

Gabriela Gonzalez-Araiza will soon serve as a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Ms. Gonzalez-Araiza clerked for Judge S. Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during his first year on the federal judiciary. Previously, she worked as a litigation associate at WilmerHale. In law school, Ms. Gonzalez-Araiza was co-president of the Federalist Society and senior editor of the Berkeley Business Law Journal. She also worked as a research assistant for Professor John Yoo. Gonzalez-Araiza holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Alexander Kazam recently finished clerking for Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. He previously clerked for Judge Raymond M. Kethledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Kazam holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. in government from Harvard College.

Alexander Kazam is a Jack Roth Charitable Foundation John Marshall Fellow for 2019

Andrea Ludtke will soon clerk for Chief Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She will then clerk for Judge Carlos T. Bea, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Previously, she worked as a summer associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Dallas and externed for Judge Otis D. Wright II, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In law school, she served as an associate editor of the UCLA Law Review and as vice chairwoman of the Federalist Society. Before law school, she worked for four years as a television news producer for the Fox Business Network and Bloomberg Television in New York City. She holds a B.A. in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law.

Meredith Pohl clerks for the Honorable Rhesa H. Barksdale, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She will next clerk for the Honorable Allison H. Eid, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She previously worked as a summer associate for King & Spalding LLP, and as a summer legal intern with the United States Department of Justice: Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation—Appellate Staff. Pohl holds a B.A. in political science, with minors in economics and French, from Purdue University, and a J.D. from Ole Miss Law School.

Zachary Reynolds is a J.D. student at the University of Chicago Law School, where he serves as a staffer for the Law Review and a former chairman of the Edmund Burke Society, a conservative debating society. After law school, he will clerk for the Honorable Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Previously, he worked as a summer associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and McKool Smith, and externed for the Honorable Raymond Gruender of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He also worked for a year as a research assistant on the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. Reynolds holds a B.A. in philosophy and theology from Thomas Aquinas College and a M.A. in politics from Hillsdale College.

Libby Stropko will clerk for the Honorable Judge Kevin C. Newsom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She will next clerk for the Honorable Judge Trevor N. McFadden, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She previously worked as a summer associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. and as an intern for the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. During law school, she served as an articles editor for the Virginia Law Review and participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Prior to law school, Ms. Stropko traveled to universities around the country as a national leadership consultant for Chi Omega Fraternity. She holds a B.S. in business administration (finance) from the University of Arizona and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Eric Wessan clerks for James C. Ho, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He previously worked as a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Keller Lenkner LLC and he interned for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. While at the University of Chicago Law School, he was president of the Federalist Society Chapter, which won the James Madison Chapter of the Year Award and for which he was awarded the Patrick Henry Award for Leadership. He was an articles editor for The University of Chicago Legal Forum. Prior to law school, he was the vice consul for policy & communications for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Chicago. Wessan holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Karl Worsham currently clerks for Judge Carolyn B. McHugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He previously clerked for Judge Charles F. Lettow on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He will next clerk for Judge Joan L. Larsen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to his clerkships, Karl interned for Justice Thomas R. Lee on the Utah Supreme Court and worked in the Office of the Utah Attorney General, both in the Constitutional Section and the Appellate Department. As a law student, he served as managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Worsham holds a B.A. in philosophy from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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the right-wing media echo chamber pushed a completely fictional talking point that Silicon Valley Bank had supposedly donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter, based on distortions from a far-right think tank. And in Fox News’ rush to amplify the falsehoods, which fit the network’s preposterous political narrative that SVB was a “woke bank,” purported “news” personnel behaved no differently from the network’s opinion hosts.

As a prime example of Fox’s “news” personalities pushing blatantly partisan falsehoods, on the morning of March 15, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy claimed: “Roughly $73 million went to Black Lives Matter-related causes” from the bank. [vid]

and later that night, Fox host Sean Hannity said that Silicon Valley Bank “diverted a massive amount of money to left-wing causes. Now, get this, this is what we have discovered, that includes a whopping $73 million to BLM-related groups."[vid]

this is the same network that, as recently unearthed text messages and emails have shown, will actively reprimand and penalize its alleged “straight news” reporters for debunking misinformation pushed by its opinion hosts and their guests. As such, nobody in the network would have any incentive to even try to unearth the facts, because Fox News is not in any sense a real news organization.

Actual SVB donations to Black Lives Matter: $0.00

The charge itself that SVB contributed over $70 million to Black Lives Matter or closely aligned organizations is based on a supposed “BLM-funding database” maintained by the Claremont Institute, a right-wing and openly anti-democracy organization that is also closely tied to disgraced former law professor John Eastman, who was closely involved in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Associated Press confirmed that the database does not show any spending to Black Lives Matter, and obtained a comment in which Claremont explained it was including “reparative initiatives,” which it called “race-based, discriminatory hiring programs; race-based, sub-prime lending; partisan voter initiatives; and DEI efforts.” The AP also obtained a comment from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which confirmed it did not receive $70 million from the bank, and added: “Even if we did, the idea that this type of contribution would be controversial is rooted in a pathology that Black organizations don’t deserve to be funded.”

In addition, professor Rodney Ramcharan at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business explained to the AP what actual evidence of bank failure due to “woke” business practices might look like, if such a thing existed. “The bank would have suffered loan losses—writing down bad loans made to ‘woke’ firms,” he explained. “So this is not a matter of opinion, but actual data. Instead, there are no unusual loan losses or loan loss provisioning.” (Claremont had cited “sub-prime lending” as a component of such alleged “woke” practices.)

The database labels any donations that support Black people as “BLM”

Writing for the newsletter Popular Information, Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Tesnim Zekeria reported that the Claremont Institute’s own database shows a total of $0 in donations to any officially branded Black Lives Matter organization. Instead, the organization’s database also includes spending that it describes as being for “organizations and initiatives that advance one or more aspects of BLM’s agenda.”

Under this amorphous criteria, Popular Information found that Claremont had included a pledge that SVB made in 2021 to spend $50 million over the course of five years for the company’s internal initiative to connect women, Black people and Latinos with startup funding and leadership connections in venture capital. Nearly all the rest came from a $20 million pledge to “support additional COVID-19 relief” and establish a “full-ride, needs-based University Scholarship program to students at Arizona State University, Florida A&M University, Tulane University, and Xavier University.” Both Florida A&M and Xavier University of Louisiana are prominent historically black colleges and universities. (It’s unclear why Claremont lumped in funding for Arizona State and Tulane.)

Talking Points Memo editor-in-chief Josh Marshall also examined the rest of the database on supposed BLM-related corporate spending, and found that Claremont’s appraisal of corporate spending throughout the business world essentially boiled down to “it seems adjacent to Black people, so that’s ‘BLM.’” These included any corporate donations to such longstanding organizations as the United Negro College Fund and the NAACP, or minority-focused business groups such as the Executive Leadership Council or the Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering, the latter of which was founded in 1976 by DuPont. (Also tagged as “BLM” spending in the Claremont’s database were corporate grants to the American Heart Association and U.S. Vaccine Adoption Grants.)

Keep in mind, Popular Information had also pointed out that the database defines the BLM agenda as allegedly being to “undermine capitalism, the nation state, and Western civilization.” By extension, Claremont is essentially accusing any corporate spending on Black education, health outcomes, or business development to be part of a plot to destroy Western civilization. This is the fabulist message that Fox’s reporters and the rest of the right-wing media ecosystem were so eager to spread.

Fox News drove the right-wing echo chamber’s amplification of false SVB claims

Fox’s alarmist coverage of the supposed link between SVB’s corporate giving and the BLM movement clearly spanned both its purported “straight news” side and opinion hosts, with the two camps voicing the exact same line over and over on Fox News, Fox Business, and the network’s digital properties.

Fox was not alone in spreading this falsehood; many right-wing media outlets pushed the same lies. A New York Post headline read: “SVB donated $73M to Black Lives Matter movement, social justice causes.” An article from The Federalist was headlined: “Silicon Valley Bank Pledged Nearly $74 Million To Black Lives Matter Causes.” The Washington Times, citing The Federalist, wrote: “SVB donated more than $73 million to the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice causes.” A Washington Examiner headline read: “SVB collapse: Bank donated over $70 million to Black Lives Matter groups before closure.” Gateway Pundit declared in its headline: “Woke Silicon Valley Bank Gave Over $73 Million to Black Lives Matter Movement.” A Daily Caller headline stated: “Silicon Valley Bank Committed Over $73 Million To BLM And Social Justice Causes Before It Collapsed.” And it went on and on and on.

In an amazing turn of events, Breitbart actually issued a correction, noting that “the Claremont Institute’s definition of ‘Black Lives Matter’ included a far wider range of organizations,” and giving credit that “left-wing writer Judd Legum appropriately flagged these issues.”

So as of now, Breitbart has exhibited more journalistic responsibility than the entire roster of Fox News, including one of the network’s White House correspondents.

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Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is a department of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Claremont, California. [1]

Both the Claremont Institute and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence are conservative organizations that emphasize natural right and the ideas of the American Founding.[2]

Mission

According to its website, the mission of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence "is to restore the constitutional protections created by our Founding Fathers."[2]

Background

According to John Eastman, Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, he began the Center as "the legal arm of the Claremont Institute." Claremont, Eastman says on the Center's website, operates under the belief that the Declaration of Independence ought to inform our understanding of the Constitutionand therefore legal issues in America.[3]

Work

Publications

The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence issues one online publication, Founders' Brief, which features contributions from various individuals that concern topics of law.[3]

Town Halls

In 2014, the Center for Constitutional began offering Town Halls. These meetings take place via webcast and feature the Center's director John Eastman and a number of legal experts. During the Town Hall telecasts, Eastman and guests discuss topics ranging from freedom of speech, federalism, right to life, and more.[4]

Litigation

According to its website, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence undertakes litigation in order to "place Originalist, natural law-based arguments in front of state and federal courts in strategically selected cases that will impact the legal landscape." The Center aims to achieve this goal through representation of clients and the filing of

Latin for 'friend of the court.' An entity who is not a party to a dispute but who petitions the court or is requested by the court to file a brief in the dispute because of the entity's strong interest in the subject matter.

" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(170, 170, 170);">amicus curiae briefs in courts throughout the country. The Center's website states that the organization specializes in cases that speak to the following issues:[5]

Amicus brief activity

The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence files

Latin for 'friend of the court.' An entity who is not a party to a dispute but who petitions the court or is requested by the court to file a brief in the dispute because of the entity's strong interest in the subject matter.

" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(170, 170, 170);">amicus curiae briefs in courts throughout the country.

The following are the U.S. Supreme Court cases for which the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence has filedamicus briefs from 2012 to 2016, according to the Center's website.

Amicus briefs filed by the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in the U.S. Supreme Court, 2012-2016[5]
2012
  • Bond v. United States
  • Arizona v. Intertribal Council of Arizona, Inc.[6]
  • American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles[7]
2013
  • Town of Greece v. Galloway
  • Elmbrook v. Doe
  • Harris v. Quinn
  • McCullen v. Coakley
  • Autocan Corp. v. Sebelius
  • Brandt v. United States
  • Chamber of Commerce v. EPA
  • NLRB v. Noel Canning
  • Liberty University v. Lew[8]
  • United Here Local 355 v. Mulhall
2014
  • Kathleen Sebelius et al. v. Hobby Lobby
  • Peri & Sons Farms, Inc. v. Rivera
  • Susan B. Anthony List et al. v. Driehaus
  • Gary Herbert, Governor, et al. v. Derek Kitchen et al. and Sally Howe Smith, County Clerk v. Mary Bishop[9]
2015
  • Horne v. U.S. Department of Agriculture[10]
  • Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin[11]
2016
  • Stormans, Inc. DBA Ralph's Thriftway, et al. v. John Wiseman, Secretary, Washington State Department of Health[12]

Leadership

According to the Center's website, the following individuals were senior staff as of September 2016:[13]

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