Clarence Thomas

Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk --- 4 days ago
An Ohio writer says Thomas ended the myth of black political unity -- to Obama's benefit. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 31 days ago
Clarence Thomas in a 1959 high school photo. Credit: Associated Press. Clarence Thomas has insisted that affirmative action tainted the value of his Yale law degree, and destroyed his chances for a big firm job out of school. In his memoir, published last fall, he wrote: “I’d learned the hard way that a law [...] ...

Source: dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com --- 3 days ago
Interesting Points commentary section this weekend, full of intriguing "points" of view. My personal faves are the Katz and Fulwood pieces for their sheer originality.... Hope you enjoy all or some of the following: Robert D. Kaplan on what it takes to earn the highest award the U.S. military can bestow -- and why the public fails to appreciate its worth. Rod Dreher about Episcopal priest Chloe Breyer memoir, in which she wrote about her befuddlement that prisoners she was ministering to responded more to the stern teachings of Islam than her squishy version of Christianity. Breyer, like so many liberals, didn't understand that the poor and the working class need a strict code of personal and social morality more than the well-off do, precisely because the consequences for failure are so much harsher for them. Conservatives get this. But what conservatives don't get, and liberals do, is the extent to which economic conditions help or hinder the development of a healthy moral atmosphere. In their important new book "Grand New Party," young conservatives Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam show how the Republican Party, whose cultural beliefs generally resonate with working-class views, has dropped the ball on relating to working-class economic insecurity. For all their advantages this election year, the Democrats are still in thrall to cultural elitists. If the GOP can get right on pro-family economic policies, it can hold off the Democr ...

Source: hotair.com --- 20 days ago
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Source: www.law.com --- 35 days ago
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Source: newsbusters.org --- 20 days ago
Via Allahpundit at Hot Air , we learned that Whoopi Goldberg delighted the Manhattan liberal theatre crowd with a little Clarence Thomas-bashing while hosting the Tony Awards last night on CBS. Typically, she suggested that Justice Thomas wasn't really a black man. She introduced actor Laurence Fishburne this way: And here’s a man who found out just how fantastic it is also when he picked up a Tony in Two Trains Running, currently on Broadway as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice – actually the only African-American Supreme -- no, that’s not true. [Laughter and applause] I forgot! I forgot! Allahpundit also links to an AP story on how black conservatives like Armstrong Williams and J.C. Watts are thinking really hard about voting for Obama. Saying some kind words about the Democrat might be well-mannered, but Watts goes way beyond that to trash Republican efforts at black outreach: J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House leadership, said he's thinking of voting for Obama. Watts said he's still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them. "And Obama highlights that even more," Watts said, adding that he expects Obama to take on issues such as poverty and urban policy. "Republicans often seem indifferent to th ...

Source: www.theroot.com --- 8 days ago
Thomas' conservatism destroyed the 'unity myth' that all black Americans were the same politically and ideologically. Partisan politics aside, that was a good thing, and we should give credit where it is due. ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 35 days ago
Clarence Thomas Hails 'Dream Come True' at Washington Jesuit Academy press release), NY - WJA, founded by the Jesuit order of priests who established Washington's Georgetown University and Prep, as well as Gonzaga College High School, ... Original story at PR Newswire . Related stories include: Clarence Thomas Hails ‘Dream Come True’ at Washington Jesuit Academy - Urbanmecca.com , Thomas inspires boys school grads - Washington Times View all 3 related news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet for Georgetown University . ...

Source: www.abajournal.com --- 33 days ago
Although a Yale Law School diploma didn't prevent Clarence Thomas from getting a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court bench, it didn't help him much either, he has said. In particular, the African-American justice has blamed Yale's affirmative action program for stigmatizing black graduates, and contends his law degree is… ...

Source: amok.asianweek.com --- 29 days ago
The Wall Street Journal online put a question mark after the notion, but I’m making it a declarative. There’s no doubt that Jindal is the change agent that Republicans could trot out there to offset Obama. He’s us in elephant-face. A ready made tool for the GOP. What I find distressing is how it’s just another example of [...] ...

Source: littletownblues.wordpress.com --- 2 days ago
Clarence Thomas, the AP reports, hasn’t spoken during a Supreme Court case in two years. That’s 142 cases of Constitutional importance, and Thomas just sits there silently. Why is this guy still on the Supreme Court? Once upon a time, judges and justices were impeached — for largely partisan reasons — when they failed to do [...] ...

Source: departmentoflunch.wordpress.com --- 21 days ago
Though people protested outside the Capitol back in October 1991 as the Senate confirmed Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, political experts at the time said that the accusations of sexual harassment against the conservative judge along with other evidence of his being ill suited for service would fade from memory. Not so fast. In [...] ...

Source: www.masshistoria.net --- 10 days ago
The originalist party animal and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on this day in 1948 in the town of Pin Point, Georgia. Thomas grew up speaking the Gullah language, which is a hybrid of English and various West African languages, and for all we know, he still may speak it. (He doesn’t open [...] ...

Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 30 days ago
The rage that Justice Clarence Thomas harbors raises questions about whether he can sit as an impartial judge in many of the cases the Supreme Court hears. ...

Source: www.businesswire.com --- 5 days ago
Clarence, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greatbatch, Inc. (NYSE: GB) will present at the Collins Stewart Fourth Annual Growth Conference on July 10, 2008. Thomas J. Hook, President and CEO, will ...

Source: bench.nationalreview.com --- 12 days ago
Wendy Long has the cover essay in the Summer issue of the Claremont Review of Books--a tour of several books on Clarence Thomas#39;s life and jurispru... . . . ...

Source: instapundit.com --- 10 days ago
SPEAKING OF A SUPREME COURT THAT LOOKS LIKE AMERICA, Dahlia Lithwick offers this: Anybody who believes the current Supreme Court looks like America needs to take a few more trips on a Greyhound bus. All the judges are white and/or old; most are both. Clarence Thomas is white? Who knew? ...

Source: www.poynter.org --- 24 days ago
Legal Times The Supreme Court press corps, joined by Court employees and seven justices -- all but Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas , reports Tony Mauro -- said goodbye to New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse , who has taken a buyout. At the reception, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joked that commenting on Greenhouse's work was like "asking a corpse to comment on the work of the coroner." ...

Source: www.law.com --- 25 days ago
The Supreme Court on June 9 breathed new life into the doctrine of patent exhaustion -- thereby limiting the power of patent-holders over ?downstream? transactions. In a unanimous ruling authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court stood firm behind the 150-year-old doctrine under which ?the sale of a patented item terminates all patent rights to that item.? ...