The New York Sun has produced a detailed account of Hillary Clinton’s clerkship in 1971, when she was a 23-year-old Yale law student, at one of America’s most radical law firms, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. The report describes the political orientation of the firm’s leadership and how Clinton landed the job. The Sun comments that

[o]ne partner at the firm, Doris Walker, was a Communist Party member at the time. Another partner, Robert Treuhaft, had left the party in 1958, several years after being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and labeled as one of America’s most “dangerously subversive” lawyers. The Oakland-based firm was renowned for taking clients others rejected as too controversial, including Communists, draft resisters, and members of the African-American militant group known as the Black Panthers.

In a second report, the Sun examines how the acquaintances Clinton made during her stint at Treuhaft surfaced later as her political career advanced.