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9 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Concurring in a 2017 case, Justice Clarence Thomas complained that the doctrine had lost touch with its common-law roots. [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Indeed, Justice Clarence Thomas seemed to erect a pre-emptive defense. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
” In an op-ed for The Hill, Oliver Dunford weighs in on Seila Law v. [read post]
This plan did not work in Box,but the case did provoke a concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas that lays out a curious argument against abortion.The Indiana law had two basic provisions. [read post]
The extent to which federal obstruction of justice statutes apply to the president, especially when concerning actions facially within the office’s powers under Article II, has been hotly contested at least since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
3 May 2019, 7:21 am by Andrew Hamm
As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously suggested in 1919 in Schenck v. [read post]
23 May 2018, 10:19 am by Adam Feldman
Per SCOTUSblog’s statistics for the 2016 term, Kennedy agreed with all justices aside from Justice Clarence Thomas at least 80 percent of the time. [read post]
1 May 2018, 2:50 am by NCC Staff
He was the only black person in his law class and in 1952, Mandela and his partner, Oliver Tambo, established the first black law firm in South Africa. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
A former union-side labor lawyer, Democratic party activist, and civilian reviewer of the Los Angeles police, upon becoming a judge Reinhardt no more “strip[ped] down like a runner,” as Clarence Thomas disingenuously put it during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, than have more conservative jurists. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 8:11 am by John Elwood
There was also one bit of decidedly neutral news on the relist front, as Oliver v. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 6:57 am
The answers were (with dollar values shown):Supreme Court Justice Before and After ($400) First Chief Justice ever who, despite "99 Problems," was always "Big Pimpin'"; ($800) He replaced Thurgood Marshall and chugged his way around the island of Sodor; ($1200) This Heisman runner-up jurist, now "The Home of the Original Slider"; ($1600) HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host who went on to become "The Great Dissenter"; and ($2000) Current… [read post]
16 May 2017, 2:36 pm by John Lewis
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented based on his well-established view that the FAA does not apply in state court. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 1:26 pm by Rory Little
(Justice Clarence Thomas, as usual, said nothing during the argument.) [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 2:22 pm by JB
If the positions that he stood for become and remain dominant in American politics, he will be a bit like Oliver Wendell Holmes-- his judicial sins will be washed away.Scalia, of course, was one of the Court's two originalists, along with Justice Clarence Thomas. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 3:10 am by Amy Howe
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman looks at Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissents this Term. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 8:28 am by Rory Little
Justice Thomas began his dissent with this 1897 “quip” from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, but then immediately recalled the thought, saying that “old rules often stand the test of time because wisdom underlies them. [read post]