Clarence Thomas

On January 26, 2012, over 600 students, faculty and staff crowded into the Hogan Ballroom to hear from a man who has become a part of our institution's history by serving as living proof that Holy Cross can change its students' lives. Clarence ...  

An emotional Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received and honorary degree at the College of the Holy Cross ... "Father Brooks has been central to all the accomplishments and to a life long experience," said Joseph. The life lesson learned by Joseph ...  

A US Supreme Court justice refused Thursday to grant a Florida company's request to block a lower court's order to return treasure to the Spanish government that was salvaged from a ship sunk in 1804. Justice Clarence Thomas rejected without comment the ...  

WORCESTER — Decades before Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was part of the highest court in the country, he was a seminary dropout from Savannah, Ga., with few options. “In the summer of 1968, I had no place to go and no idea what I ...  

"Clarence Thomas honored at Holy Cross; 'Lonely kid' returns to alma mater": The Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette contains this article today. The Associated Press reports that "Clarence Thomas celebrates Mass. mentor." And New England Cable News offers a video...  

Thomas had recently quit seminary and been booted out of his grandfather’s home in Georgia. He said he’d never be where he is today without Brooks. “It is here that I enjoyed the first brief glimpses of what it meant to be educated. It is here that I ...  

Brooks recruited Thomas and 19 other black students to the Worcester school after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. Thomas had recently quit seminary and been booted out of his grandfather's home in Georgia. He said he'd never be where he is today ...  

There are four probable votes against legalizing same sex unions, from John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and, of course, Antonin Scalia who was none too happy when the court struck down laws that criminalized sodomy in an opinion written by ...  

Can somebody please think of a clever way to convince him to resign? A $20 million a year job at the Scaife or the Koch or the Bradley Foundation, or the Hoover Institute, or something? Dahlia Lithwick: >Clarence Thomas' dissent in Smith v. Cain: A “single witness” linked Juan Smith to the five murders for which he was convicted in New Orleans in 1995. The Supreme Court reversed Smith’s conviction yesterday, dwelling on that single witness in...  

Chief Justice John G. Roberts defended the high court's ethical standards in his end-of-year report on the judiciary, as fellow justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas face calls to recuse themselves from the health care reform law case. His ...  

The Rev. Clarence Thomas Ballew, 83, of Turner Road, died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel by the Revs. Bill Wooten and Marvin Carson.  

The decision was 8-1; Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent. The case brings to the fore problems of prosecutors' hiding evidence and the guarantee, stemming from a 1963 Supreme Court decision, that the government must turn over evidence ...  

Jenike, Clarence A. 86 May 20, 1925 Dec. 15, 2011 Clarence Jenike of Lake Oswego, died with his family by his side at Meridian Park Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Adelle and son, Thomas. Born in Minnesota he attended high school at Hutchinson High ...  

Similar calls for recusal from other groups have been directed at Justice Clarence Thomas. Larry Klayman, head of Freedom Watch, wanted to argue the recusal issue himself as part of the three days of public oral arguments scheduled for March 26-28.  

Thursday’s vote authorized the superintendent’s office send written notification of the board’s decision to Laura Frey-Greathouse, Clarence Thomas, Kelly Webb, Delores Jenkins, Charles Raski, Renee Smith and Torrence Greene. “This board ...