Clarence Thomas

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It would hardly seem newsworthy that a Supreme Court justice was going to be the keynote speaker at a gathering of alumni of his elite law school. Except when the justice is Clarence Thomas, and the elite law school is Yale. Read full article >>  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who bitterly wrote of affixing a 15-cent price sticker to his 1974 Yale Law School diploma and storing it in the basement, appears to be reconciling with his alma mater. After spurning ...  

Thomas might have revealed some of the regret he felt regarding relations with Yale when he appeared in December, first at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, where he had worked during law school. "I have to go over to the law school ...  

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Twenty-one years have passed since President George H.W. Bush shifted the court's majority from liberal to conservative by replacing Justice Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas. Since then, presidents have nominated six new justices ...  

That was the message in October 1991, when an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee interrogated a young African-American law professor named Anita Hill about her claim that her former boss Clarence Thomas had made unwelcome sexual ...  

Re "They're just political hacks dressed up in black robes" (Viewpoints, April 5): Maureen Dowd writes, "Inexplicably mute 20 years after he lied his way onto the court, Clarence Thomas didn't ask a single question during oral arguments for one ...  

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made big news today by revealing the obvious: Oral arguments aren't that big of a deal—especially to Thomas, who has gone more than six years without asking a single question at a hearing. Referring to the discourse ...  

His joking remarks gave his audience little doubt about his political views. After congratulating the University of Kentucky men's basketball team for winning the school's eighth NCAA national championship this week, Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, told a capacity crowd Thursday night at UK's Memorial Hall: "Maybe in this type of environment, we could redistribute some of those." When asked whether he read The New...  

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas had an unkind comment for the New York Times Thursday. When asked by an attendee of his Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Lecture at the University of Kentucky whether he reads the Gray Lady every day, the jurist ...  

Normally, given this decision, I would say that Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Kennedy and John Roberts should have their heads examined. But I also think, like any aspiring paratrooper, they should have other parts of their bodies ...  

Clarence and Bob Boone, Isanti County Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Task Force Chairman, want to thank all who worked at this event: Dale Strike, Bob Fredell, Mary Fredell, Scott Fredell, Susan Morris, Monica Broten, Hohn Thomas and April Thomas.  

What about Clarence Thomas? Surely, he’s political. Nothing could be further from the truth. You might disagree with Thomas’ originalism but it is impossible to document that Thomas cares one iota about what political position is supported ...  

it is probable that the female Thurgood Marshall will be replaced by a female Clarence Thomas.” I would be surprised if Ginsburg retires at the end of this term. At 79, she remains a vital voice on the court. And the “good job” (as she ...