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razoo » 26 Jun 2022, 5:49 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 5:49 pm

As a 43-year-old with barely one year of experience on the judiciary under his belt, Clarence Thomas was quite young and inexperienced when George H. W. Bush nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas experienced a particularly rigorous and dramatic round of Senate hearings.

A former employee at the EEOC, Anita Hill, accused him of sexual harassment. After the FBI investigated and returned with an inconclusive report, the Senate initially decided not to pursue the report and continued with the hearings. The accusation was leaked to the press, and women’s rights groups across America demanded that the Senate further investigate the matter. Anita Hill was called to testify in front of the Senate. Thomas denied all the allegations and spoke out against the unprofessional nature of the proceedings.

Eventually, the Senate confirmed Thomas in October 1991 by the narrowest margin in a century.
Clarence Thomas is the second black justice to serve on the Court.

As a Supreme Court justice, Thomas is notorious for his lack of questions during oral arguments. While many justices use questions to show their opinion on an issue or communicate with the other justices as to their feelings on a case, Thomas remains silent – but that does not hinder the other justices from discerning his thoughts.

His reputation of conservativism guides their predictions. He has shown his opinions to lean farther right than any other justice on the bench today.

Though Thomas is known for his lack of engagement in the oral arguments, his intellect is indispensable to his conservative cohorts. He contributed heavily both to Scalia’s opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, a gun control case, and Kennedy’s opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a major campaign finance law case.

Thomas also penned the conservative majority decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School, where he stated that the public school violated the First Amendment when it refused to allow a religious club from meeting there.

He also wrote a dissent in Gonzales v. Raich that exhibited his relative ease at overturning decades of precedent. The Gonzales case focused on the Commerce Clause powers granted to Congress in the Constitution and whether they reach so far as to allow regulation of a woman growing medicinal marijuana for personal use as granted by her home state.

Thomas argued that allowing the Commerce Clause and congressional regulation to reach into a situation where there was no direct connection to commerce was unconstitutional.
 
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022 ... reme-court

razoo » 26 Jun 2022, 6:12 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 6:12 pm

The above is what you think.....not what I think.

razoo » 26 Jun 2022, 6:12 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 6:12 pm

The above is what you think.....not what I think.

sootedupCyndi » 26 Jun 2022, 6:28 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 6:28 pm

You know what you remind me of? i couldn't place it..  i did tho...  a Kazoo!!! the little thing
  you blow into when your a kid.. hum- makes funny noises.. a  RAZOO - The KAZOO!

FOS » 26 Jun 2022, 6:11 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 6:11 pm

Midwest. Fucling clowns are happy to throw away your own principles whenever it is convenient. 

You love credentialism whenever the authority supports you.. 

But now that You don't like what a Supreme Court Justice says you pretend your opinion matters more than him

Bitch...slop being a hypocrite. When a Supreme Court Justice speaks then shut up and listen

FOS » 26 Jun 2022, 6:42 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Jun 2022, 6:42 pm

2 syllables? You flatter him. 

Just zoo.