Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S and is the second American of black origin to serve in the highest court of the U.S after Retired Justice Thurgood Marshall. Born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia he spent his early life in Savanna, Georgia and was educated Holy Cross College where he majored in English as well as being active in social causes such as campaigns for civil rights and the protest against the American War in Vietnam. He later proceeded to Yale Law School where he helped establish the Black student Union while at the same time developing a conservative approach to issues. After his legal training, Thomas moved back to the South in 1974 where he worked as the assistant to the Attorney General of Missouri Mr. John Danforth before later on taking up the job of being a lawyer to Monsanto, an agricultural firm. In 1981, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education majorly due to his past in the civil rights movement and to balance the composition of this important part of the US government. He is now a conservative and controversial judge though initially he had wanted to pursue a religious life having had seminary education stints at the St. John Vianney Minor Seminary and Immaculate Conception Seminary in order to become a catholic priest or cleric. He however left the seminary and decided to fight for civil rights after he overheard a fellow student at the seminary make fun of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In the year 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas as the Chairman of the EEOC, a position in which he held until the year 1990 when President George H.W Bush nominated him to serve as a Judge in the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On July 1, 1991, after sixteen months as a judge of appeal, he was nominated to fill the position left vacant by Mr.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a prime example of Woodson's argument on "miseducated" blacks. Although Thomas benefitted from programs like affirmative action, once he reached the high point in his career he supported legislature to end such programs. ...
Clarence Thomas, being a standout example, describes the process as "a national disgrace.... However, especially in the case of Clarence Thomas, the media focused on the wrong details entirely. The amount of allegations made against Thomas began to be called a "feeding frenzy" and mainly liberal. ... This concluded with the media being left with little credit after Thomas was appointed. ... Although as discussed the reasons for this being so are understandable, often the way in which the process is carried out could be described as unacceptable, with regards to the Senate'...
Rehnquist - (Concurring) Chief Justice John Paul Stevens - (Dissent) Associate Justice Sandra Day O"Conner - (Concurring) Associate Justice Antonin Scalia - (Concurring) Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy - (Concurring) Associate Justice David H. Souter - (Dissent) Associate Justice Clarence Thomas - (Concurring) Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg - (Dissent) Associate Justice Stephen G. ... Dissenting Opinion Justice Stevens" Opinion - Neither petitioner had reapplied to the University and they are already enrolled in other schools so they would receive no benefit from this case. ...
It was later determined by Justice Anthony M. ... Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a prime example of this. ... Furthermore, Thomas argued for an immediate end to Affirmative Action. The obvious contradiction here is that Clarence Thomas benefited immensely from the kind of Affirmative Action programs he later sought to exterminate. ... Thomas then complained that Affirmative Action programs stigmatize the beneficiaries. ...
The recent ruling made by Justice Clarence Thomas has sent a shock through many colleges and have opened numerous people to another issue surrounding admission principals. Along with the affirmative action claim came an idea that colleges need to have a more equal and fair selection process for the...
Justice Stephen Breyer I. ... Since 1967, Justice Breyer has served as either a full-time professor or part-time lecturer at Harvard. ... Ginsburg typically joins with Justice Stevens in dissenting from decisions that deny a stay of execution. ... Kennedy Justice Anthony M. ... But unlike Scalia and later Clarence Thomas, Justice Kennedy has shied away from developing an outspoken or confrontational style in his opinion writing. ...
The ACLU assigned their case to Thomas M. ... The Justices on the Supreme Court at this time were: William H. ... Kennedy, David Hackett Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O"Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Steven G. ... Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. ... The justices that were against this ruling felt that the suspicionless drug testing was not justified, and that the testing of all student athletes was too broad. ...
In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled six to three in Vernonia School District vs. Acton that schools could randomly test student athletes for drug use and the Todd case in the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998 extended the right to all participants in extracurricular activities. ...
