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- A former black activist and onetime follower of Malcolm X, he champions a criminal-justice system suffused with racism, and has rejected claims of cruel and unusual punishment made by prisoners.
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Clarence Thomas is the 106th justiceto sit on the Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge onthe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Before that he held several positions in state and federal government, including an eight-year stint as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency that enforces laws prohibit...
Thomas grew up in Pin Point, Georgia, in the 1950s during theJim Crow era of racial segregation in the South. He was raised by his grandparents.
Clarence Thomas replaced retiring Associate Justice ThurgoodMarshall, who was the Supreme Court’s first Black justice.
Thomas was nominated by a Republican president, but it isn’t clear if Thomas is a registered Republican. An investigation by judicial watchdog nonprofit Fix The Court into the voter registration of the Supreme Court justices didnot obtain any voter registration records for Thomas.
Thomas is considered the most uncompromising originalist justice. He is often willing to dismissprecedents he feels were wrongly decided in favor ofhis interpretation of the Constitution's original meaning. He is one of the likeliest justices to issue a solo opinion.
In cases involving the First Amendment, Thomas has been an ardent critic of regulations that limit speech. In 2001, he wrote the majority 6-3 opinion inGood News Club v. Milford Central School,which held that a public school violated a Christian club's free speech rights when it denied the group the ability to meet in the building after school hour...
Thomas is the longest serving justice. His tenure began in 1991. In 2021, he celebrated 30 years on the court.
Thomas received adegree in English in1971from College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and receivedhis law degree from Yale Law School in 1974.
Thomas votes with the conservative wing of the court most of the time. In the 2020 term, he agreed with conservative Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch more than 80% of the time and liberal Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor only 45% of the time, according to the Harvard Law Review.
Thomas grew up Catholic. Before venturing into law, Thomas attended seminary school with the aim of becoming a Catholic priest. That journey ended when Thomas became dismayed at the reaction of fellow seminary students to the assassination of the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
Apr 15, 2016 · Nearly 25 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual assault, her story is being brought to the small screen.
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Jun 21, 2023 · Inside the marriage of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas. They have, for decades, sustained a happy marriage, through Roe v. Wade, Anita Hill’s testimony, and ...
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Sep 27, 2021 · When Anita Hill accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted advances and lewd comments when she worked for him, she says it changed "just about every aspect" of her life.
Feb 29, 2024 · Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shocked the legal community when the news broke that one of his new law clerks will be Crystal Clanton—who became notorious in 2015 for...
