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- Clarence Thomas does not believe in color-blindness: “I don’t think this society has ever been color-blind,” he said in 1985, in the third year of his tenure as head of the EEOC. “I grew up in Savannah, Georgia under segregation. It wasn’t color-blind and America is not color-blind today…Code words like ‘color-blind’ aren’t all that useful.”
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Mar 28, 2019 · In affirmative action cases, Justice Thomas and his conservative colleagues consistently reject the proposition that discriminating against one racial group counts as a permissible means of remedying discrimination against another racial group.
Jul 6, 2023 · In addition to Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a magisterial concurring opinion, explaining that the Constitution is, quite properly, colorblind.
Oct 23, 2022 · Conservative originalist scholars themselves recognize this: As University of San Diego law professor Michael Rappaport wrote in 2013, “Justice Thomas, like Justice Scalia, has not made a serious...
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Jul 7, 2023 · Thomas, as one of the most influential proponents of the colorblind Constitution, has quoted or invoked Harlan throughout his tenure on the Supreme Court.
Jul 1, 2023 · In his dense and heartfelt 58-page concurring opinion that drew upon his own experiences as a Black man, Thomas mounted what he called a "defense of the colorblind Constitution" in order to...
Jun 26, 2013 · But it is true that in the heyday of the civil rights movement, in court and in political discourse, colorblindness was gospel. Thomas quotes from a lawyer for the black children who challenged...
May 9, 2023 · And as the above excerpt from FRONTLINE’s new documentary Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court explores, the Supreme Court justice who is now a stalwart...
