A Republican operative who has clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch and helped the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee usher through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has used his Twitter account to post racist screeds targeting Black people over the past few months.
Mike Davis, formerly chief counsel for nominations under Senator Chuck Grassley, has posted several tweets since August of 2023 fuming about what he referred to as a “violent Black underclass” in America. That “underclass”, he insists in the tweets, is being protected and grown by the Democratic Party. The tweets frequently accompany or quote-tweet videos depicting images of mass retail theft, fights between students in high schools, or other media generally depicting Black youth as violent.
