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23 Feb 2022, 8:28 am
"I don't understand you,'" Jackson, who clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer from 1999 to 2000, remembered thinking, according to a 2007 biography of Thomas, "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 10:06 am
"If you know that a person has been vetted by Jim Clyburn, you know that person won't go to the court and end up being a Clarence Thomas," referring to the Black conservative justice. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 7:45 am
"If you know that a person has been vetted by Jim Clyburn, you know that person won't go to the court and end up being a Clarence Thomas," referring to the Black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 10:12 pm
And that statement isn't even accurate! [read post]
15 Feb 2022, 4:06 pm
” Some legal scholars have argued that originalism doesn’t cut much ice when it comes to First Amendment protections. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
Shortly after his 1991 confirmation, Justice Clarence Thomas famously quipped “I ain’t evolving. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 1:49 pm
If the Court is unwilling to seriously cut back on that, it's a sign the justices aren't willing to do much about QI more generally, other than curb some of the more extreme abuses. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 11:24 am
" Like Clarence Thomas three decades ago, I have no idea what Biden is talking about. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 3:52 am
Said Georgia state senator Nan Orrock, quoted in "Georgia Senate votes for Clarence Thomas monument despite objections from Black senators" (The Hill).I suspect Orrock's remark was about Thomas in particular, but it could, more graciously, apply to statues depicting any living person. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 7:56 am
“Georgia Senate votes to put statue of Clarence Thomas on Capitol grounds”: Maya T. [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 4:00 am
" Whatever President Bush 1 said about his selection of Clarence Thomas, everyone knows that it was important to Bush to name a Black Justice to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall.Perhaps most glaringly, for some time it was common to speak of a "Jewish seat" on the Court. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 4:00 am
Bush selected Clarence Thomas because the latter is Black, notwithstanding Thomas's lack of much experience on the bench. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 3:00 am
In a number of instances, her activism has overlapped with cases that have been decided by Justice Clarence Thomas. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 9:01 am
Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have similarly explained how the separation of powers protects liberty. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am
ShareEven before taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to reshape the federal judiciary. [read post]
30 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
Going back to the late 19th century, it has never confronted a method of execution of which it didn’t approve.In a series of cases starting in 2007, the Court has given its blessing to lethal injection and refused to say whether any drugs and drug combinations would not pass constitutional muster.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas in particular have led the way in telling a comforting, if distorted, story of progress about America’s… [read post]
30 Jan 2022, 4:45 am
To say that affirmative action devalues a person's achievement is to talk like Clarence Thomas. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 8:37 am
Indeed, we aren't so smart ourselves. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 11:17 am
Others may explain that yes, he is pragmatic, but that doesn’t mean he is dispassionate about the cases or would compromise his ideals. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 8:50 am
But also consider that many people believe that Clarence Thomas, because he is conservative, doesn't represent black people at all. [read post]
