Yesterday saw the release of Sonia Sotomayor’s first opinion for the Court, as Adam Liptak notes. Traditionally, justices are assigned a straightforward, unanimous case for their first opinion, and this was mostly true. Clarence Thomas, however, refused to join the parts of Sotomayor’s opinion that considered the costs and benefits of a rule that would […]
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CLARENCE THOMAS DOESN’T THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL THOSE RIGHTS.
In a time when a liberal President and a conservative President are in agreement that the government can detain anyone it wants indefinitely without trial or charges, and that it can break the law and then obscure its lawbreaking under the rubric of national security, I’m not inclined to say that there is a “proliferation […]
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DOES BARACK OBAMA “OWE” CLARENCE THOMAS?
Sam Fulwood III has a curious piece in the Dallas Morning News arguing that Clarence Thomas‘ appointment to the Supreme Court was “the most significant development in U.S. race relations since the end of the civil rights movement” — and that Thomas paved the way for Obama’s presidential run. I was in elementary school during […]
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Clarence Thomas’ Race Problem
His new memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, retreads the Anita Hill controversy and reveals a (still) angry black man — and the gap between the rhetoric and reality of race in America.
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Scalia and Thomas: Originalist Sinners
How Thursday’s ruling on school integration gives the lie to the two justices’ supposedly devout “originalism.”
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Race, Gender and the Supreme Court
In a parody of affirmative action, the Senate failed to assess seriously Clarence Thomas’s fitness for the Supreme Court. Casualties include blacks, women, Democrads, and the Court’s own moral authority.