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I was 11 months old on this day. Man I wish I was around to watch this hearing in its entirety. Thx for the upload. There is no way that lady made any of those things up you got some piece of s. Clarence Thomas Thomas in 2007 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Incumbent Assumed office October 23, 1991 Nominated by George H. W. Bush Preceded by Thurgood Marshall Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit In office March 12, 1990 – October 23, 1991 Nominated by George H. Bush Preceded by Robert Bork Succeeded by Judith Rogers Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission In office May 6, 1982 – March 12, 1990 President Ronald Reagan George H. Bush Preceded by Eleanor Holmes Norton Succeeded by Evan Kemp Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Rights In office 1981–1982 President Ronald Reagan Preceded by Cynthia Brown Succeeded by Harry Singleton Personal details Born June 23, 1948 (age 71) Pin Point, Georgia, U. S. 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He is currently the most senior associate justice on the Court following the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. Thomas succeeded Thurgood Marshall and is the second African American to serve on the Court. Among the current members of the Court he is the longest-serving justice, with a tenure of 28 years, 144 days as of March 15, 2020. Thomas grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. He was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri in 1974, and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he became a legislative assistant to United States Senator John Danforth, and in 1981 was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U. Department of Education. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In 1990, President George H. Bush nominated Thomas for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He served in that role for 16 months, and on July 1, 1991, was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the U. Supreme Court. Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had sexually harassed attorney Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and subsequently at the EEOC. Hill claimed that Thomas had repeatedly made sexual and romantic overtures to her, despite her repeatedly rebuffing him and telling him to stop; Thomas and his supporters claimed that Hill, witnesses who came forward on her behalf, and her supporters had fabricated the allegations to prevent a black conservative from getting a seat on the Supreme Court. The U. Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52–48. Since joining the court, Thomas has taken a textualist approach, seeking to uphold the original meaning of the United States Constitution and statutes. He is also, along with fellow justice Neil Gorsuch, an advocate of natural law jurisprudence. Thomas is generally viewed as the most conservative member of the court. [1] [2] [3] Thomas is also known for almost never speaking during oral arguments. [4] Early life Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a small, predominantly black community near Savannah founded by freedmen after the American Civil War. He was the second of three children born to M. C. Thomas, a farm worker, and Leola Williams, a domestic worker. [5] [6] They were descendants of American slaves, and the family spoke Gullah as a first language. [7] Thomas's earliest known ancestors were slaves named Sandy and Peggy, who were born around the end of the 18th century and owned by wealthy planter Josiah Wilson of Liberty County, Georgia. [8] M. left his family when Thomas was two years old. Thomas's mother worked hard but was sometimes paid only pennies per day. She had difficulty putting food on the table, and was forced to rely on charity. [9] After a house fire left them homeless, Thomas and his younger brother Myers were taken to live with his maternal grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. Thomas was seven when the family moved in with his maternal grandfather, Myers Anderson, and Anderson's wife, Christine ( née Hargrove), in Savannah. [10] Living with his grandparents, Thomas enjoyed amenities such as indoor plumbing and regular meals for the first time in his life. [5] His grandfather, Myers Anderson, had little formal education, but had built a thriving fuel oil business that also sold ice. Thomas calls his grandfather "the greatest man I have ever known. " [10] When Thomas was 10, Anderson started taking the family to help at a farm every day from sunrise to sunset. [10] His grandfather believed in hard work and self-reliance; he would counsel Thomas to "never let the sun catch you in bed. " Thomas' grandfather also impressed upon his grandsons the importance of getting a good education. [5] Raised Catholic, he attended the majority-black St. Pius X high school for two years before transferring to St. John Vianney's Minor Seminary on the Isle of Hope, where he was an honor student and among very few black students. [10] [11] He also briefly attended Conception Seminary College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Missouri. No one in Thomas's family had attended college. [11] In a number of interviews, Thomas stated that he left the seminary in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He had overheard another student say after the shooting, "Good, I hope the son of a bitch died. " [6] [12] He did not think the church did enough to combat racism. [10] At a nun's suggestion, Thomas attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. While there, Thomas helped found the Black Student Union. Once, he walked out after an incident in which black students were punished while white students went undisciplined for committing the same violation; some of the priests negotiated with the protesting black students to re-enter the school. [11] Having spoken the Gullah language as a child, Thomas realized in college that he still sounded unpolished despite having been drilled in grammar at school, and he chose to major in English literature "to conquer the language. " [13] At Holy Cross, he was also a member of Alpha Sigma Nu and the Purple Key Society. [14] Thomas graduated from Holy Cross in 1971 with an A. B. cum laude in English literature. [13] [14] Thomas had a series of deferments from the military draft while in college at Holy Cross. Upon graduation, he was classified as 1-A and received a low lottery number, indicating he might be drafted to serve in Vietnam. Thomas failed his medical exam, due to curvature of the spine, and was not drafted. [15] Thomas entered Yale Law School, from which he received a Juris Doctor (J. D. ) degree in 1974, graduating towards the middle of his class. [16] Thomas has recollected that his Yale Juris Doctor degree was not taken seriously by law firms to which he applied after graduating. He said that potential employers assumed he obtained it because of affirmative action policies. [17] In 1969 Dean Louis Pollak wrote that the law school was expanding its program of quotas for black applicants, with up to 24 entering that year admitted under a system that deemphasized grades and LSAT scores. [18] According to Thomas, he was "asked pointed questions, unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated. " [19] He further reflected: I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value. [20] Influences In 1975, when Thomas read Race and Economics by economist Thomas Sowell, he found an intellectual foundation for his philosophy. [9] [21] [22] The book criticized social reforms by government and instead argued for individual action to overcome circumstances and adversity. He was also influenced by Ayn Rand, [23] particularly The Fountainhead, and would later require his staffers to watch the 1949 film version of the novel. [9] Thomas later said that novelist Richard Wright had been the most influential writer in his life; Wright's books Native Son and Black Boy "capture[d] a lot of the feelings that I had inside that you learn how to repress. " [24] Thomas acknowledges having "some very strong libertarian leanings. " [25] Career Early career Thomas with President Ronald Reagan in 1986, while serving as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Thomas was admitted to the Missouri bar on September 13, 1974. [26] From 1974 to 1977, Thomas was an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri under State Attorney General John Danforth, who met Thomas at Yale Law School. Thomas was the only African-American member of Danforth's staff. [27] As Assistant Attorney General, Thomas first worked at the criminal appeals division of Danforth's office and moved on to the revenue and taxation division. [28] Retrospectively, Thomas considers Assistant Attorney General the best job he has ever had. [29] When Danforth was elected to the U. Senate in 1976, Thomas left to become an attorney with the Monsanto Chemical Company in St. Louis, Missouri. [30] He moved to Washington, D. and returned to work for Danforth from 1979 to 1981 as a Legislative Assistant handling energy issues for the Senate Commerce Committee. [31] The two men shared a common bond in that they had studied to be ordained (although in different denominations). Danforth was to be instrumental in championing Thomas for the Supreme Court. In 1981, he joined the Reagan administration, serving first as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Rights in the U. Department of Education, and then, from 1982 to 1990, as chairman of the U. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). Journalist Evan Thomas characterized Thomas as "openly ambitious for higher office" during his tenure at the EEOC. As Chairman, he promoted a doctrine of self-reliance, and halted the usual EEOC approach of filing class-action discrimination lawsuits, instead pursuing acts of individual discrimination. [32] He also asserted in 1984 that black leaders were "watching the destruction of our race" as they "bitch, bitch, bitch" about President Reagan instead of working with the Reagan administration to alleviate teenage pregnancy, unemployment and illiteracy. [33] Federal judge On October 30, 1989, Thomas was nominated by President George H. Bush to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit following the departure of Robert Bork, [34] despite Thomas's initial protestations that he would not like to be a judge. [35] Thomas gained the support of other African Americans such as former Transportation Secretary William Coleman, but said that when meeting white Democratic staffers in the United States Senate, he was "struck by how easy it had become for sanctimonious whites to accuse a black man of not caring about civil rights. " [35] Thomas's confirmation hearing was uneventful. [36] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 6, 1990, and received his commission the same day. He developed warm relationships during his 19 months on the federal court, including with fellow federal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [35] [37] Supreme Court nomination and confirmation Announcement and hearings When Associate Justice William Brennan retired from the Supreme Court in July 1990, Thomas was one of five candidates on President Bush's shortlist for the position and Bush's favorite. Ultimately however, after consulting with his advisors, the president decided to hold off on choosing Thomas, and nominated David Souter of the First Circuit Court of Appeals instead. [35] A year later, Justice Thurgood Marshall, the only African-American justice on the Court announced his retirement, and President Bush nominated Thomas to replace him. [38] In announcing his selection on July 1, 1991, Bush called Thomas the "best qualified [nominee] at this time. " [35] U. presidents of that era submitted lists of potential federal court nominees to the American Bar Association (ABA) for a confidential rating of their judicial temperament, competence and integrity on a three-level scale of well qualified, qualified or unqualified. [39] However, as noted by Adam Liptak of The New York Times, the ABA has historically taken generally liberal positions on divisive issues, and studies suggest that candidates nominated by Democratic presidents fare better in the group's ratings than those nominated by Republicans. [40] Anticipating that the ABA would rate Thomas more poorly than they thought he deserved, the White House and Republican Senators pressured the ABA for at least the mid-level qualified rating, and simultaneously attempted to discredit the ABA as partisan. [41] The ABA did rate Thomas as qualified, although with one of the lowest levels of support for a Supreme Court nominee. [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] Ultimately, the ABA rating ended up having little impact on Thomas' nomination. [39] [41] Some of the public statements of Thomas's opponents foreshadowed the confirmation fight that would occur. Both liberal interest groups and Republicans in the White House and Senate approached the nomination as a political campaign. [48] [49] Attorney General Richard Thornburgh had previously warned Bush that replacing Thurgood Marshall, who was widely revered as a civil rights icon, with any candidate who was not perceived to share Marshall's views would make the confirmation process difficult. [50] Civil rights and feminist organizations opposed the appointment based partially on Thomas's criticism of affirmative action and suspicions that Thomas might not be a supporter of Roe v. Wade. [51] Thomas's formal confirmation hearings began on September 10, 1991. [52] Thomas was reticent when answering Senators' questions during the appointment process, recalling what had happened to Robert Bork when Bork expounded on his judicial philosophy during his confirmation hearings four years prior. [53] Thomas's earlier writings had frequently referenced the legal theory of natural law; during his confirmation hearings Thomas limited himself to the statement that he regards natural law as a "philosophical background" to the Constitution. [54] [55] [56] Anita Hill allegations After the conclusion of the confirmation hearings, and while the full Senate was debating whether to give final approval to Thomas's nomination, an FBI interview with Anita Hill was leaked to the press. As a result, on October 8, the final vote was postponed and the confirmation hearings were reopened. [57] Hill was called to testify before the Judiciary Committee. She testified that Thomas had subjected her to comments of a sexual nature, which she felt constituted sexual harassment or at least "behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court. " [58] [59] [60] [61] Hill's testimony included lurid details, and some Senators aggressively questioned her. [62] Thomas was recalled before the committee. He denied the allegations, saying: [63] This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I'm concerned it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U. Senate rather than hung from a tree. [64] Throughout his testimony, Thomas defended his right to privacy. He made it clear that he was not going to put his personal life on display for public consumption, permit the committee (or anyone else) to probe his private life, or describe discussions that he may have had with others about his private life. The committee accepted his right to do so. [65] In 2007, Thomas wrote My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir, in which he addressed Anita Hill's allegations and the caustic confirmation hearing. [66] Hill was the only person to come forward and publicly testify that they had been sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. [67] Angela Wright, who worked under Thomas at the EEOC before he fired her, [68] decided not to testify, [69] but submitted a written statement alleging that Thomas had pressured her for a date and had made comments about the anatomy of women. However, she said she did not feel his behavior was intimidating nor did she feel sexually harassed, though she allowed that "[s]ome other women might have". [70] [71] [72] Also, Sukari Hardnett, a former Thomas assistant, wrote to the Senate committee that although Thomas had not harassed her, "If you were young, black, female and reasonably attractive, you knew full well you were being inspected and auditioned as a female. " [73] [74] In addition to Hill and Thomas, the Judiciary heard from several other witnesses over the course of three days, on October 11–13, 1991. [75] A former colleague, Nancy Altman, who shared an office with Thomas at the Department of Education, testified that she heard virtually everything Thomas said over the course of two years, and never heard any sexist or offensive comment. Altman did not find it credible that Thomas could have engaged in the conduct alleged by Hill without any of the dozens of women he worked with noticing it. [76] Reflecting the skepticism of some committee members, Senator Alan K. Simpson questioned at one point why Hill met, dined with, and spoke by phone with Thomas on various occasions after they no longer worked together. [77] Senate votes After extensive debate, the Judiciary Committee voted 13–1 on September 27, 1991, to send the Thomas nomination to the full Senate without recommendation. A motion earlier in the day to give the nomination a favorable recommendation had failed 7–7. [78] Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas became public after the nomination had been reported out from the committee. [75] Clarence Thomas being sworn in as a member of the U. Supreme Court by Justice Byron White during an October 23, 1991, White House ceremony, as wife Virginia Thomas looks on During debate on whether to confirm Thomas, the Senate asked the Judiciary Committee to further examine the nomination in light of Anita Hill's accusations. It was only the third time in the Senate's history that such an action had been taken (and had not been done since 1925, when the nomination of Harlan F. Stone was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee). [75] Following testimony concerning sexual harassment allegations, the Senate, on October 15, 1991, voted to confirm Thomas as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by a 52–48 vote. [75] In all, Thomas won with the support of 41 Republicans and 11 Democrats, while 46 Democrats and 2 Republicans voted to reject his nomination. [79] The 99 days that elapsed from the date Thomas's nomination was submitted to the Senate to the date on which the Senate voted whether to approve it was the second longest of the 16 nominees receiving a final vote since 1975, second only to Robert Bork, who waited 108 days; [75] and the vote was the narrowest margin for approval since 1881, when Stanley Matthews was confirmed 24–23. [80] Vice President Dan Quayle presided over the vote in his role as President of the Senate, prepared to cast a tie-breaking vote if needed for confirmation. [81] [82] Eight days after Thomas won Senate confirmation, on October 23, he received his commission and took the prescribed constitutional and judicial (set by federal law) oaths of office, and became the 106th member of the Court. He was sworn-in by Justice Byron White in a ceremony initially scheduled for October 21, but postponed due to the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist 's wife. [83] [84] Public perception Thomas is associated with the more conservative side of the Court. [85] Thomas has rarely given media interviews during his time on the court. He said in 2007: "One of the reasons I don't do media interviews is, in the past, the media often has its own script. " [11] In 2007, Thomas received a $1. 5 million advance for writing his memoir, My Grandfather's Son; it became a bestseller. [86] [87] Thomas biographer Scott Douglas Gerber has opined that attacks against Thomas from critics such as Jeffrey Toobin have been unusually vitriolic. Gerber stated that one reason may be Thomas' race. There are a number of explanations for this phenomenon. The first is grounded in race and ethnicity. We should not forget that Thurgood Marshall, Justice Thomas's predecessor on the Supreme Court, and the first African-American appointed, was also sharply criticized during his appointment process and in his early days on the Court. The fact that Justice Thomas is black has undoubtedly played a similar role in how he has been assessed, no matter how much we may hate to admit it. [88] — Scott Douglas Gerber, First principles: the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas Other critics have outlined separate reasons. They raise liberals ' disappointment that Thomas has departed so much from the jurisprudence of his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall. [88] Additional causes for the harsh criticism of Thomas may be the inherently explosive nature of sexual misconduct accusations, the suspicion among some people that Thomas was not forthcoming during his confirmation hearings, and the belief that, ironically, Thomas' nomination was a kind of affirmative action akin to the programs that he has criticized as a judge. [88] Thomas has said he has a preference for non- Ivy League clerks, although he has hired them. [89] Schools from which Thomas has hired include Notre Dame Law School, [90] Creighton, Rutgers, George Mason, and the University of Utah. [91] In 2006, Thomas had a 48% favorable, 36% unfavorable rating, according to Rasmussen Reports. [92] [93] Judicial philosophy Conservatism and originalism Thomas is often described as an originalist, or textualist, and a member of the conservative wing of the Supreme Court. [5] [94] [95] He is also often described as the most conservative member of the Supreme Court, [16] [96] [97] although others gave Justice Scalia that designation. [98] [99] [100] Scalia and Thomas had similar but not identical judicial philosophies, and pundits speculate about the degree to which Scalia thought some of Thomas's views to be implausible. [101] [102] Thomas's jurisprudence has also been described as similar to that of Justice Hugo Black, who "resisted the tendency to create social policy out of 'whole cloth. '" [103] According to the same commentator, Thomas generally declines to engage in judicial lawmaking, and instead views the constitutional role of the court as being the interpretation of law, rather than the making of law. [103] Voting alignment Thomas voted most frequently with Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Scalia in his early tenure on the Supreme Court. [85] On average, from 1994 to 2004, Scalia and Thomas had an 87% voting alignment, the highest on the court, followed by Ginsburg and Souter (86%). [104] Scalia and Thomas's agreement rate peaked in 1996, at 98%. [104] By 2004, however, other pairs of justices were observed to be more closely aligned than Scalia and Thomas. [105] The conventional wisdom that Thomas's votes follow Antonin Scalia's is reflected by Linda Greenhouse 's observation that Thomas voted with Scalia 91 percent of the time during October Term 2006, and with Justice John Paul Stevens the least, 36% of the time. [106] Jan Crawford asserts that to some extent, this is true in the other direction as well, that Scalia often joins Thomas instead of Thomas joining Scalia. [107] Statistics compiled annually by Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog demonstrate that Greenhouse's count is methodology-specific, counting non-unanimous cases where Scalia and Thomas voted for the same litigant, regardless of whether they got there by the same reasoning. [108] Goldstein's statistics show that the two agreed in full only 74% of the time, and that the frequency of agreement between Scalia and Thomas is not as outstanding as is often implied by pieces aimed at lay audiences. For example, in that same term, Souter and Ginsburg voted together 81% of the time by the method of counting that yields a 74% agreement between Thomas and Scalia. By the metric that produces the 91% Scalia/Thomas figure, Ginsburg and Breyer agreed 90% of the time. Roberts and Alito agreed 94% of the time. [109] Crawford wrote in her book on the Supreme Court that Thomas's forceful views moved "moderates like Sandra Day O'Connor further to the left" [110] but frequently attracted votes from Rehnquist and Scalia. [111] Mark Tushnet and Jeffrey Toobin observed that Rehnquist rarely assigned important majority opinions to Thomas because the latter's views made it difficult for him to persuade a majority of justices to join him. [112] Number of dissenting opinions From 1994 to 2004, on average, Thomas was the third most frequent dissenter on the court, behind Stevens and Scalia. [104] Four other justices dissented as frequently in 2007. [113] Three other justices dissented as frequently in 2006. [114] One other justice dissented as frequently in 2005. [115] Stare decisis Thomas spoke favorably about the concept of stare decisis, or standing by precedent, during his confirmation hearings, stating that "stare decisis provides continuity to our system, it provides predictability, and in our process of case-by-case decision making, I think it is a very important and critical concept. " [116] However, according to Antonin Scalia, Thomas "doesn't believe in stare decisis, period. " [117] This assessment is consistent with Thomas's record on the bench: factoring in length of tenure, Thomas urged overruling and joined in overruling precedents more frequently than any other justice during the Rehnquist Court. [118] Also according to Scalia, Thomas is more willing to overrule constitutional cases than he was: "If a constitutional line of authority is wrong, he would say let's get it right. I wouldn't do that. " [119] Law professor Michael Gerhardt, however, says that Scalia's characterization of Thomas may be incorrect, given that Thomas has supported leaving a broad spectrum of constitutional decisions intact. [120] Thomas's belief in originalism is strong; he has said, "When faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning. " [121] Thomas believes that an erroneous decision can and should be overturned, no matter how old it is. [121] Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett maintains that Thomas supports statutory stare decisis. Her cited examples include Thomas's concurring opinion in Fogerty v. Fantasy, 510 U. 517 (1994). [122] In Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Hyatt (2019), Thomas wrote the 5–4 decision along ideological lines overruling Nevada v. Hall (1979), the earlier decision which said states could be sued in courts of other states. Thomas stated that stare decisis “is not an inexorable command. ” Thomas explicitly disavowed the concept of reliance interests as justification for adhering to precedent. In dissent from Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal., Justice Stephen Breyer asked what other decisions might eventually be overruled. Breyer suggested Roe v. Wade (1973) might be overruled. Breyer stated that it is best to leave precedents alone unless they are widely seen as erroneous or become impractical. [123] [124] In Flowers v. Mississippi (2019), a 7–2 decision, in a dissent from the ruling overturning Mississippi resident Curtis Flowers ’ death sentence, joined only by Neil Gorsuch, Thomas wrote an opinion that suggests Batson v. Kentucky (1986), which forbids prosecutors from using race as a factor in making peremptory challenges in jury selection, was wrongly decided and should be overruled. Gorsuch, however, did not join the section of Thomas’ opinion suggesting Batson should be overruled. [125] Commerce Clause Thomas has consistently supported narrowing the court's interpretation of the constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause (which often is simply called the "Commerce Clause") to limit federal power. At the same time, Thomas has broadly interpreted states' sovereign immunity from lawsuits under the Commerce Clause. [126] In United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison, the court held that Congress lacked power under the Commerce Clause to regulate non-commercial activities. In these cases, Thomas wrote a separate concurring opinion arguing for the original meaning of the Commerce Clause. Subsequently, in Gonzales v. Raich, the court interpreted the Interstate Commerce Clause combined with the Necessary and Proper Clause to empower the federal government to arrest, prosecute, and imprison patients who used marijuana grown at home for medicinal purposes, even where the activity is legal in that particular state. Thomas dissented in Raich, again arguing for the original meaning of the Commerce Clause. Thomas and Scalia had rejected the notion of a Dormant Commerce Clause, also known as the "Negative Commerce Clause". That doctrine bars state commercial regulation even if Congress has not yet acted on the matter. [127] In Lopez, Thomas expressed his view that federal regulation of either manufacturing or agriculture is unconstitutional; he sees both as outside the scope of the Commerce Clause. [128] [129] He believes federal legislators have overextended the Commerce Clause, while some of his critics argue that Thomas's position on congressional authority would invalidate much of the contemporary work of the federal government. [129] According to Thomas, it is not the court's job to update the constitution. Proponents of broad national power such as Professor Michael Dorf deny that they are trying to update the constitution. Instead, they argue that they are merely addressing a set of economic facts that did not exist when the constitution was framed. [130] Executive power, federalism, and federal statutes Executive power Thomas has argued that the executive branch has broad authority under the constitution and federal statutes. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, he was the only justice who agreed with the Fourth Circuit that Congress had power to authorize the president's detention of U. citizens who are enemy combatants. Thomas granted the federal government the "strongest presumptions" and said "due process requires nothing more than a good-faith executive determination" to justify the imprisonment of Hamdi, a U. citizen. [131] Thomas also was one of three justices who dissented in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay required explicit congressional authorization, and held that the commissions conflicted with both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and "at least" Common Article Three of the Geneva Convention. [132] Thomas argued that Hamdan was an illegal combatant and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention, and he agreed with Justice Scalia that the court was "patently erroneous" in its declaration of jurisdiction in this case. In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump (2018), which placed an injunction on the Donald Trump administration's asylum policy, Thomas dissented from a denial of stay application. The Ninth Circuit imposed an injunction on the Trump administration's policy only granted asylum to refugees entering from a designated port of entry, ruling that it violates the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee ’s majority opinion in an injunction order concluded that denial of the ability to apply for asylum regardless of entry point is "the hollowest of rights that an alien must be allowed to apply for asylum regardless of whether she arrived through a port of entry if another rule makes her categorically ineligible for asylum based on precisely that fact. " Thomas' Supreme Court colleagues Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh also dissented in the 5–4 Supreme Court decision to deny a stay to the Ninth Circuit's injunction. [133] [134] Federalism Federalism was a central part of the Rehnquist Court's constitutional agenda. [135] Thomas consistently voted for outcomes that promoted state-governmental authority, in cases involving federalism-based limits on Congress's enumerated powers. [135] According to law professor Ann Althouse, the court has yet to move toward "the broader, more principled version of federalism propounded by Justice Thomas. " [136] In Foucha v. Louisiana, Thomas dissented from the majority opinion that required the removal from a mental institution of a prisoner who had become sane. [137] The court held that a Louisiana statute violated the Due Process Clause "because it allows an insanity acquittee to be committed to a mental institution until he is able to demonstrate that he is not dangerous to himself and others, even though he does not suffer from any mental illness. " [138] Dissenting, Thomas cast the issue as a matter of federalism. [137] "Removing sane insanity acquittees from mental institutions may make eminent sense as a policy matter, " he concluded, "but the Due Process Clause does not require the States to conform to the policy preferences of federal judges. " [138] In United States v. Comstock, Thomas' dissent argued for the release of a former federal prisoner from civil commitment, again on the basis of federalism. [139] In U. Term Limits, Inc. Thornton, he authored the dissent defending term limits on federal house and senate candidates as a valid exercise of state legislative power. [140] Federal statutes As of 2007, Thomas was the justice most willing to exercise judicial review of federal statutes, but among the least likely to overturn state statutes. [141] According to a The New York Times editorial, "from 1994 to 2005... Justice Thomas voted to overturn federal laws in 34 cases and Justice Scalia in 31, compared with just 15 for Justice Stephen Breyer. " [142] In the 2009 Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder case, Thomas was the sole dissenter, voting in favor of throwing out Section Five of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Section Five requires states with a history of racial voter discrimination—mostly states from the old South—to get Justice Department clearance when revising election procedures. Although Congress had reauthorized Section Five in 2006 for another 25 years, Thomas said the law was no longer necessary, pointing out that the rate of black voting in seven Section Five states was higher than the national average. Thomas said "the violence, intimidation and subterfuge that led Congress to pass Section 5 and this court to uphold it no longer remains. " [143] He again took this position in Shelby County v. Holder, voting with the majority and concurring with the reasoning which struck down Section Five. [144] Bill of Rights First Amendment By 2002, Thomas was the second most likely among the nine justices to uphold free speech claims (tied with David Souter). [145] He has voted in favor of First Amendment claims in cases involving a wide variety of issues, including pornography, campaign contributions, political leafleting, religious speech, and commercial speech. [ citation needed] Thomas has made public his belief, that all limits on federal campaign contributions are unconstitutional, and should be struck down. [146] Thomas voted with the majority in Citizens United v. FEC. [147] On occasion, however, Thomas has disagreed with free speech claimants. For example, he dissented in Virginia v. Black, a case that struck down part of a Virginia statute that banned cross burning. Concurring in Morse v. Frederick, he argued that the free speech rights of students in public schools are limited. [148] In Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, he joined the majority opinion that Texas's decision to deny a request for a Confederate Battle Flag specialty license plate is constitutional. [149] Thomas authored the decision in Ashcroft v. ACLU, which held that the Child Online Protection Act might (or might not) be constitutional. The government was enjoined from enforcing it, pending further proceedings in the lower courts. [150] Thomas wrote concurrences in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U. 334 (1995) [151] and United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group (2000). In Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, Thomas wrote: "It may well be the case that anything that would violate the incorporated Establishment Clause would actually violate the Free Exercise Clause, further calling into doubt the utility of incorporating the Establishment Clause. " [152] and in Cutter v. Wilkinson, Thomas wrote: "I note, however, that a state law that would violate the incorporated Establishment Clause might also violate the Free Exercise Clause. " [153] Thomas says "it makes little sense to incorporate the Establishment Clause" vis-à-vis the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. [154] Second Amendment Thomas agreed with the judgment in McDonald v. Chicago (2010) that the right to keep and bear arms is applicable to state and local governments, but Thomas wrote a separate concurrence finding that an individual's right to bear arms is fundamental as a privilege of American citizenship under the Privileges or Immunities Clause rather than as a fundamental right under the due process clause. The four justices in the plurality opinion specifically rejected incorporation under the privileges or immunities clause, "declin[ing] to disturb" the holding in the Slaughter-House Cases, which, according to the plurality, had held that the clause applied only to federal matters. [155] [156] Since 2010, Thomas has dissented from denial of certiorari in several Second Amendment cases. He would have voted to grant certiorari in Friedman v. City of Highland Park (2015), which upheld bans on certain semi-automatic rifles, Jackson v. San Francisco (2014), which upheld trigger lock ordnances similar to those struck down in Heller, Peruta v. San Diego County (2016), which upheld restrictive concealed carry licensing in California, and Silvester v. Becerra (2017), which upheld waiting periods for firearm purchasers who have already passed background checks and already own firearms. He was joined by Justice Scalia in the former two, and by Justice Gorsuch in Peruta. [157] [158] [159] [160] Thomas dissented from the denial of an application for a stay presented to Chief Justice John Roberts in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit case Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (2019), a case challenging the Donald Trump administration's ban on bump stocks. Only Thomas and Neil Gorsuch publicly dissented. [161] Fourth Amendment In cases regarding the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, Thomas often favors police over defendants. For example, his opinion for the court in Board of Education v. Earls upheld drug testing for students involved in extracurricular activities, and he wrote again for the court in Samson v. California, permitting random searches on parolees. He dissented in the case Georgia v. Randolph, which prohibited warrantless searches that one resident approves and the other opposes, arguing that the case was controlled by the court's decision in Coolidge v. New Hampshire. In Indianapolis v. Edmond, Thomas described the court's extant case law as having held that "suspicionless roadblock seizures are constitutionally permissible if conducted according to a plan that limits the discretion of the officers conducting the stops. " Although he expressed doubt that those cases were decided correctly, he concluded that since the litigants in the case at bar had not briefed or argued that the earlier cases be overruled, he believed that the court should assume their validity and rule accordingly. [162] However, he was in the majority in Kyllo v. United States, which held that the use of thermal imaging technology to probe a suspect's home, without a warrant, violated the Fourth Amendment. In cases involving schools, Thomas has advocated greater respect for the doctrine of in loco parentis, which he defines as "parents delegat[ing] to teachers their authority to discipline and maintain order. " [163] His dissent in Safford Unified School District v. Redding illustrates his application of this postulate in the Fourth Amendment context. School officials in the Safford case had a reasonable suspicion that 13-year-old Savana Redding was illegally distributing prescription-only drugs. All the justices concurred that it was therefore reasonable for the school officials to search Redding, and the main issue before the court was only whether the search went too far by becoming a strip search or the like. [163] All of the justices, except Thomas, concluded that this search violated the Fourth Amendment. The majority required a finding of danger or reason to believe drugs were hidden in a student's underwear in order to justify a strip search. In contrast, Thomas said, "It is a mistake for judges to assume the responsibility for deciding which school rules are important enough to allow for invasive searches and which rules are not" [164] and that "reasonable suspicion that Redding was in possession of drugs in violation of these policies, therefore, justified a search extending to any area where small pills could be concealed. " Thomas said, "[t]here can be no doubt that a parent would have had the authority to conduct the search. " [163] Sixth Amendment In Doggett v. United States, the defendant had technically been a fugitive from the time he was indicted in 1980 until his arrest in 1988. The court held that the delay between indictment and arrest violated Doggett's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, finding that the government had been negligent in pursuing him and that he was unaware of the indictment. [165] Thomas dissented, arguing that the purpose of the Speedy Trial Clause was to prevent "'undue and oppressive incarceration' and the 'anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation'" and that the case implicated neither. [165] He cast the case instead as, "present[ing] the question [of] whether, independent of these core concerns, the Speedy Trial Clause protects an accused from two additional harms: (1) prejudice to his ability to defend himself caused by the passage of time; and (2) disruption of his life years after the alleged commission of his crime. " Thomas dissented from the court's decision to, as he saw it, answer the former in the affirmative. [165] Thomas wrote that dismissing the conviction "invites the Nation's judges to indulge in ad hoc and result-driven second guessing of the government's investigatory efforts. Our Constitution neither contemplates nor tolerates such a role. " [166] In Garza v. Idaho, Thomas and colleague Neil Gorsuch, in a dissent, suggested Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which established that indigent criminal defendants be provided counseling, was wrongly decided and should be overruled. [167] Eighth Amendment Regarding capital punishment, Thomas was among the dissenters in Atkins v. Virginia and Roper v. Simmons, which held that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the application of the death penalty to certain classes of persons. In Kansas v. Marsh, his opinion for the court indicated a belief that the constitution affords states broad procedural latitude in imposing the death penalty, provided they remain within the limits of Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 case in which the court had reversed its 1972 ban on death sentences if states followed procedural guidelines. [ citation needed] In Hudson v. McMillian, a prisoner had been beaten, garnering a cracked lip, broken dental plate, loosened teeth, cuts, and bruises. Although these were not "serious injuries", the court believed, it held that "the use of excessive physical force against a prisoner may constitute cruel and unusual punishment even though the inmate does not suffer serious injury. " [168] Dissenting, Thomas wrote that, in his view, "a use of force that causes only insignificant harm to a prisoner may be immoral, it may be tortious, it may be criminal, and it may even be remediable under other provisions of the Federal Constitution, but it is not 'cruel and unusual punishment'. In concluding to the contrary, the Court today goes far beyond our precedents. " [168] Thomas's vote—in one of his first cases after joining the court—was an early example of his willingness to be the sole dissenter (Scalia later joined the opinion). [169] Thomas's opinion was criticized by the seven-member majority of the court, which wrote that, by comparing physical assault to other prison conditions such as poor prison food, Thomas's opinion ignored "the concepts of dignity, civilized standards, humanity, and decency that animate the Eighth Amendment". [168] According to historian David Garrow, Thomas's dissent in Hudson was a "classic call for federal judicial restraint, reminiscent of views that were held by Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan II a generation earlier, but editorial criticism rained down on him". [170] Thomas would later respond to the accusation "that I supported the beating of prisoners in that case. Well, one must either be illiterate or fraught with malice to reach that conclusion... no honest reading can reach such a conclusion. " [170] In United States v. Bajakajian, Thomas joined with the court's more liberal bloc to write the majority opinion declaring a fine unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The fine was for failing to declare more than $300, 000 in a suitcase on an international flight. Under a federal statute, 18 U. § 982 (a)(1), the passenger would have had to forfeit the entire amount. Thomas noted that the case required a distinction to be made between civil forfeiture and a fine exacted with the intention of punishing the respondent. He found that the forfeiture in this case was clearly intended as a punishment at least in part, was "grossly disproportional", and was a violation of the Excessive Fines Clause. [171] Thomas has written that in his view, the "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" clause of the Eighth Amendment "contains no proportionality principle", meaning that the question whether a sentence should be rejected as "cruel and unusual punishment" depends only on the sentence itself, and does not depend on what crime is being punished. [172] He was concurring with the Court's decision to reject a request for review from a petitioner who had been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, under California's "Three-Strikes" law, for stealing some golf clubs, because the combined value of the clubs made the theft a felony, and he had two previous felonies in his criminal record. Equal protection and affirmative action Thomas believes that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids consideration of race, such as race-based affirmative action or preferential treatment. In Adarand Constructors v. Peña, for example, he wrote "there is a 'moral [and] constitutional equivalence' between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality. Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race. " [173] In Gratz v. Bollinger, Thomas said that, in his view, "a State's use of racial discrimination in higher education admissions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause. " [174] In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, Thomas joined the opinion of Chief Justice Roberts, who concluded that "[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. " [175] Concurring, Thomas wrote that "if our history has taught us anything, it has taught us to beware of elites bearing racial theories, " and charged that the dissent carried "similarities" to the arguments of the segregationist litigants in Brown v. Board of Education. [175] In Grutter v. Bollinger, he approvingly quoted Justice Harlan's Plessy v. Ferguson dissent: "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. " [176] In a concurrence in Missouri v. Jenkins (1995), he wrote that the Missouri District Court "has read our cases to support the theory that black students suffer an unspecified psychological harm from segregation that retards their mental and educational development. This approach not only relies upon questionable social science research rather than constitutional principle, but it also rests on an assumption of black inferiority. " [177] Abortion and family planning Thomas has contended that the Constitution does not address the issue of abortion. [178] In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the court reaffirmed Roe v. Thomas along with Justice Byron White joined the dissenting opinions of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia. Rehnquist wrote that "[w]e believe Roe was wrongly decided, and that it can and should be overruled consistently with our traditional approach to stare decisis in constitutional cases. " [179] Scalia's opinion concluded that the right to obtain an abortion is not "a liberty protected by the Constitution of the United States. " [179] "[T]he Constitution says absolutely nothing about it, " Scalia wrote, "and [] the longstanding traditions of American society have permitted it to be legally proscribed. " [179] In Stenberg v. Carhart (2000), the court struck down a state ban on partial-birth abortion, concluding that it failed the " undue burden " test established in Casey. Thomas dissented, writing: "Although a State may permit abortion, nothing in the Constitution dictates that a State must do so. " [180] He went on to criticize the reasoning of the Casey and Stenberg majorities: "The majority's insistence on a health exception is a fig leaf barely covering its hostility to any abortion regulation by the States—a hostility that Casey purported to reject. " In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the court rejected a facial challenge to a federal ban on partial-birth abortion. [181] Concurring, Thomas asserted that the court's abortion jurisprudence had no basis in the constitution, but that the court had accurately applied that jurisprudence in rejecting the challenge. [181] Thomas added that the court was not deciding the question of whether Congress had the power to outlaw partial-birth abortions: "[W]hether the Act constitutes a permissible exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause is not before the Court [in this case]... the parties did not raise or brief that issue; it is outside the question presented; and the lower courts did not address it. " [181] In December 2018, Thomas wrote a dissent when the Supreme Court voted against hearing cases brought by the states of Louisiana and Kansas to deny Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. [182] Justices Alito and Gorsuch joined Thomas’ dissent, arguing that the Supreme Court was “abdicating its judicial duty. ” [183] In February 2019, Thomas joined with three of the court's other conservative justices voting to reject a stay to temporarily block a law restricting abortion in Louisiana. [184] The law that the court temporarily stayed, in a 5–4 decision, would require that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges in a hospital. [185] In Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. (2019), a per curiam decision upholding the provision of Indiana's abortion restriction regarding fetal remains disposal on rational basis scrutiny, but also upholding the lower court rulings striking down the ban on race, sex, and disability provision; Thomas wrote a concurring opinion comparing abortion and birth control to eugenics, which was practiced in the United States in the early 20th century, and by the Nazi government in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s; as well as comparing the Box decision to Buck v. Bell (1927), which upheld a forced sterilization law regarding people with mental disabilities. (In his opinion, Thomas quoted Margaret Sanger's support for contraception as a form of personal reproductive control which she considered superior to "the horrors of abortion and infanticide" (Sanger's wording, quoted by Thomas in his opinion)). [186] Thomas' opinion referred several times to the book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by historian/journalist Adam Cohen; shortly afterward, Cohen published a sharply-worded criticism saying that Thomas had misinterpreted his book and misunderstood the history of the eugenics movement. [187] In Box, only Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg publicly registered their votes. Ginsburg and Sotomayor concurred in part and dissented in part, stating they would have upheld the lower court decision on striking down the race, sex, and disability ban; as well as the lower court decision striking down the fetal remains disposal provision. [186] Gay rights In Romer v. Evans (1996), Thomas joined Scalia's dissenting opinion arguing that Amendment Two to the Colorado State Constitution did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. Constitution. The Colorado amendment forbade any judicial, legislative, or executive action designed to protect persons from discrimination based on "homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships. " [188] In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Thomas issued a one-page dissent in which he called the Texas statute prohibiting sodomy "uncommonly silly", a phrase originally used by Justice Stewart. He then said that if he were a member of the Texas legislature he would vote to repeal the law, as it was not a worthwhile use of "law enforcement resources" to police private sexual behavior. However, Thomas opined that the Constitution did not contain a right to privacy; therefore, he did not vote to strike the statute down. Accordingly, Thomas saw the issue as a matter for the states to decide for themselves. [189] Approach to oral arguments Thomas is well known for his reticence during oral argument. Beginning when he asked a question during a death penalty case on February 22, 2006, Thomas did not ask another question from the bench for more than ten years, finally asking a question on February 29, 2016, about a response to a question regarding whether persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence should be barred permanently from firearm possession. [190] He also had a nearly seven-year streak of not speaking at all in any context, finally breaking that silence on January 14, 2013, when he, a Yale Law graduate, was understood to have joked that a law degree from Harvard may be proof of incompetence. [191] [192] Thomas has given many reasons for his silence, including self-consciousness about how he speaks, a preference for listening to those arguing the case, and difficulty getting in a word. [191] Thomas' speaking and listening habits also may have been influenced by his Gullah upbringing, during which time his English was relatively unpolished. [7] [13] [193] In 2000, he told a group of high school students that "if you wait long enough, someone will ask your question. " [194] [195] Although he rarely speaks from the bench, Thomas has acknowledged that sometimes, during oral arguments, he will pass notes to his friend and colleague Justice Stephen Breyer, who then asks questions on behalf of Thomas. [196] In November 2007, Thomas told an audience at Hillsdale College: "My colleagues should shut up! " He later explained, "I don't think that for judging, and for what we are doing, all those questions are necessary. " [197] According to Amber Porter of ABC News, one of the most notable examples of a rare instance in which Thomas asked a question was in 2002 during oral arguments for Virginia v. Black, when he expressed concern to Michael Dreeben, who had been speaking on behalf of the U. Department of Justice, that he was "actually understating the symbolism... and the effect of... the burning cross" and its use as a symbol of the "reign of terror" of "100 years of lynching and activity in the South by the Knights of Camellia... and the Ku Klux Klan". [198] Thomas is not the first quiet justice. In the 1970s and 1980s, William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and Harry Blackmun generally were quiet; [199] [200] however, the silence of Thomas stood out in the 1990s as the other eight justices engaged in active questioning. [200] The New York Times ' Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak has called it a "pity" that Thomas does not ask questions, saying that he has a "distinctive legal philosophy and a background entirely different from that of any other justice" and that those he asked in the 2001 and 2002 terms were "mostly good questions, brisk and pointed. " [191] Conversely, Jeffrey Toobin, writing in The New Yorker, calls the silence of Thomas "disgraceful" behavior that has "gone from curious to bizarre to downright embarrassing, for himself and for the institution he represents". [201] Personal life In 1971, Thomas married his college sweetheart, Kathy Grace Ambush. They had one child, Jamal Adeen. They separated in 1981 and divorced in 1984. [24] [202] In 1987, Thomas married Virginia Lamp, a lobbyist and aide to Republican Congressman Dick Armey. [203] In 1997, they took in Thomas's then six-year-old great nephew, Mark Martin Jr., [204] who had lived with his mother in Savannah public housing. [205] Thomas's second wife remained active in conservative politics, serving as a consultant to the Heritage Foundation, and as founder and president of Liberty Central. [206] In 2011, she stepped down from Liberty Central to open a conservative lobbying firm, touting her "experience and connections", meeting with newly elected Republican congressmen and describing herself as an "ambassador to the tea party". [207] [208] Also in 2011, 74 Democratic members of the House of Representatives wrote that Thomas should recuse himself on cases regarding the Affordable Care Act, due to "appearance of a conflict of interest" based on the work of his wife. [209] Thomas was reconciled to the Catholic Church in the mid-1990s. [210] In his 2007 autobiography, he criticized the church for its failure to grapple with racism in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, saying it was not so "adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now". [86] Thomas is (as of 2019) one of 14 practicing Catholic justices in the Court's history, of 114 justices total, and one of five currently serving (along with Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Sonia Sotomayor). [211] In January 2011, the liberal advocacy group Common Cause reported that between 2003 and 2007 Thomas failed to disclose $686, 589 in income earned by his wife from the Heritage Foundation, instead reporting "none" where "spousal noninvestment income" would be reported on his Supreme Court financial disclosure forms. [212] The following week, Thomas stated that the disclosure of his wife's income had been "inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions". [213] Thomas amended reports going back to 1989. [214] In 2016, Moira Smith, a lawyer, claimed that Thomas groped her at a dinner party in 1999, when she was a Truman Foundation scholar. Thomas called the allegation "preposterous". [215] [216] Writings Thomas, Clarence (2007). 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External links Clarence Thomas at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center. Clarence Thomas at Ballotpedia Issue positions and quotes at OnTheIssues Appearances on C-SPAN Clarence Thomas at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention – November 2007. Cornell Law School Biography of Clarence Thomas. Outline of the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Controversy Oyez, Official Supreme Court media, Clarence Thomas biography. How to Read the Constitution Excerpt from Thomas's Walter B. Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute in October 2008 Transcripts of Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court Washington Post article about Thomas New Yorker Magazine: "Partners: Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama's health-care plan? 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Edit Storyline Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill. Yet, the personal odyssey of Clarence Thomas is a classic American story and should be better known and understood. His life began in extreme poverty in the segregated South, and moved to the height of the legal profession, as one of the most influential justices on the Supreme Court. Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words tells the Clarence Thomas story truly and fully, without cover-ups or distortions. The documentary will open in movie theaters nationally on January 31, 2020, followed by a national broadcast on PBS in May 2020. Educational use is forthcoming. Plot Summary | Add Synopsis Taglines: Unprecedented access. The story you didn't know. Motion Picture Rating ( MPAA) Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including some sexual references Details Release Date: 31 January 2020 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words Box Office Opening Weekend USA: $74, 577, 2 February 2020 Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $279, 527 See more on IMDbPro » Company Credits Technical Specs See full technical specs ».
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words – In Theaters Now – Join us today in an interview with Micheal Pack, director of a new documentary recounting the extraordinary life of Justice Clarence Thomas. Air Date: 03/09/2020 Guest: Michael Pack On-air Personalities: David Barton, Rick Green, and Tim Barton Today’s Links: WallBuilders | American historical events, founding fathers, historical documents, books, videos, CDs, tapes, David Barton’s speaking schedule. Coupons: Use promo code WBL17 to receive 10% off your entire order on ALL WallBuilders Store Products!! Helpful links: Listen: Your browser does not support the audio element. Download: Click Here Transcription note: As a courtesy for our listeners’ enjoyment, we are providing a transcription of this podcast. Transcription will be released shortly. However, as this is transcribed from a live talk show, words and sentence structure were not altered to fit grammatical, written norms in order to preserve the integrity of the actual dialogue between the speakers. Additionally, names may be misspelled or we might use an asterisk to indicate a missing word because of the difficulty in understanding the speaker at times. We apologize in advance. Rick: Welcome to the intersection of faith and the culture. It’s WallBuilders Live where we’re talking about today’s hottest topics on policy and faith and the culture. We always do this from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. We’re here with David Barton, America’s premier historian and the founder of WallBuilders. Tim Barton is with us. He’s a national speaker and pastor and president of WallBuilders. And my name is Rick Green. I’m a former Texas legislator and America’s Constitution coach. We are excited about our interview today. You know, we often talk about all the great judicial appointments that President Trump has made. I know, I went into the 2016 election, just hoping for half the judges to be good. I mean, I knew all of Hillary’s would be leftist and very anti-constitutional, anti-religious liberty. I knew that would be the case with her. And I figured at the time with Trump, I’d be lucky if half of his appointees were good and half of them were not and it’s been unbelievable, 99%. We’ve said it often on the program, outstanding Judges, the two the US Supreme Court it was fantastic. Just a stellar job of appointing these Justices. But sometimes we forget that good federal judges, you know, people that actually follow the Constitution and actually do this the right way intended by the founding fathers, it didn’t start with Donald Trump’s appointees, there were some good folks on the bench prior to that. In fact, I remember in law school, when I was there in law school, it was during the hearings for Clarence Thomas being nominated to the US Supreme Court. And I remember how terrible, just how awful those hearings were and how they went after him with a vengeance, how they did not want this conservative black man on the US Supreme Court and just how he stood strong and since that time, has become my favorite Justice on the US Supreme Court, not just because of his life story, but because of the decisions that he’s handed down the opinions that he’s written that have had a great impact on my judicial philosophy. I mentioned the McDonald case often, the gun case where he really goes back and does a great history, the 14th Amendment. But there’s so many things that he’s done to stand firm. He’s the one that’s really trying to take the court in the right direction. But you know, Thomas, Scalia, before Gorsuch and others, but Thomas himself is just a story that we wanted to highlight. And there’s a movie that has just come out about his life. And Michael Pack is the producer of that movie, we’re going to learn what the movies about and encourage our listeners to go see it. Looking forward to this interview, we got to take a quick break. We’ll be right back. As we’re going to break, I want to encourage you to visit our websites today at, our main website and then, that is our radio site. And so, if you go to, that’s where you can get archives of the program, Good News Friday programs, Foundation of Freedom Thursday program, interviews from the last few months. And also, that’s the place where you can make that contribution. So as a listener, we ask you to consider donating and becoming a part of our team. When you come alongside us like that, it makes it possible for us to get these kind of programs into more hands and just continue to restore America’s constitutional republic. So think about that if you would, check out those websites today. 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For more information on God’s hand in American history, contact WallBuilders at 1808REBUILD. Welcome back, thanks for staying with us here on WallBuilders Live. We got Michael Pack with us. He is the producer of ‘Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words’. Phenomenal movie out in theaters right now. Michael, thanks for your time today, sir. Michael: Thank you for having me on. Hey, I have not seen the full movie, but I’ve seen the trailer and it looks amazing. I can’t wait to see it. It’s in theaters now. But I’m curious what made you decide to take on a Supreme Court Justice’s story? Well, I didn’t really know much about him when I heard through mutual friends that he was getting tired of having his enemies in the Left to find him and his legacy. So, we met with him and as I say, I only really knew what I remembered from the very contentious hearings in 1991. But after meeting with him and doing the research, I discovered what may be obvious to a lot of people that he has a great personal story. He came from dire poverty in the segregated south, to the Supreme Court. At one level, it’s just a great Horatio Alger story, a classic American success story. And he’s got lots of twists and turns and then it’s a great story. I wanted to tell it. Now, to tell the story, you had incredible access. If I understand, right, you had like 30 hours of footage over a six month period. That’s right. That’s a unique, unique opportunity to get spend that much time with a Supreme Court Justice. It really is unique. I believe that there has never been a Supreme Court Justice in the history of the Supreme Court that has given that amount of access, let alone Justice Thomas who doesn’t like to give interviews. But I think that we were able to persuade him of the approach that we wanted to take. I mean, initially, we were going to interview a whole bunch of people about his life, covering the political spectrum. But I realized that the best way to tell his story is to have him tell it. So the film is him, mostly him looking directly to camera, telling his story, what it was like to grow up, what it was like to go through the changes he did, what it was like to go through the hearing. He looks right at the audience, he tells them his story in his words. I mean, I’m there asking questions, but the audience sees him looking directly at camera. So, can you tell us what he thinks of the final product? Well, I can only say that his wife saw it and loved it. And now just last week, his son saw it and loved it. And every friend of his saw it, loved it. I was in the vent this week where Justice Thomas was introduced as a new movie star, which I think embarrassed slightly. So, he hasn’t seen it. But given that, but he seemed very happy when I saw him about it. I hope that he does see it. But look, I mean, I understand why he’s reluctant to see it. He’s had a very difficult life. And then one of the most striking things about his life is his resilience, is the ability to come back from many, many setbacks and his unwillingness to define himself as a victim. He thinks that his life is blessed. But there are a lot of difficulties and struggles. And it’s not just that he gave me 30 hours of interview time, but he was willing to let me ask him questions that essentially forced him to relive those difficult moments. So, it won’t be fun for him to watch the film. It’s inspiring for the rest of us. His wife, Jenny, when she saw that she cried and I’m sure she did. So, I see what he’s a little reluctant, but I do hope he sees it. I’m excited for the world to get to know him in this way. I’m looking forward to it myself. You know, I was in law school when those hearings happened. So, I was just beginning in that world as well and over the decades, he’s become my favorite Supreme Court Justice. I mean, his opinions, his positions, his love of the original intent of the Constitution, his effort to have less reliance on [inaudible 08:00], I mean all the things he’s done as a Justice and continues to do, I think is exactly what we needed on the Supreme Court. So, I’m personally excited about it, but I think it’s good for the country to get to get to know him. And that, as you said, incredible story. And you hit on the faith element of his story as well and how he went from really going radical Left and atheist to coming back home to Christianity. That’s right. The first element is important. So, he’s raised, for he goes from dire poverty in Nevada, where his mother was working as a maid. And she finally after several years, when he’s eight, realized that she can’t take care of her two sons and brings them to her father, he’s grandfather raised. And that’s where he gets sort of his faith training. I mean his grandfather converted to Catholicism, which was quite unusual for an African American in the south of those years, sent him to parochial school. I mean, it was segregated them, but run by these Irish nuns who loved him and he loved him. And he thrived in that environment so much so that he decided he want to be a priest and he entered the seminary. So, I mean, [inaudible 09:01] commitment clearly. But the seminaries that he entered, were just disaggregating. He was one of the first African American students. So there, he experienced racism on the part of the seminarians. And reached the peak really in 1968 when they were watching TV, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and a white seminarian actually said, I hope that son of [inaudible 09:26] dies. Wow! And that was so appalling and shocking to Justice Thomas as you could expect, that he had a long feeling anyway, the church wasn’t doing enough for civil rights. So, this kept it off. He sort of lost his faith, lost his calling. Tells his grandfather, he didn’t want to be a priest, his grandfather kicked him out of the house. And he became as he says, an angry black man, race and racism explained everything. His grandfather was an Uncle Tom. He went to where he had a full scholarship, Holy Cross that he engaged and he helped form the Black Student Union. He engaged in a walkout. He invited Black Panthers to speak. He supported everyone who was in your face from Angela Davis to Malcolm X. So, he went through that period. And then we saw him coming back to his fate. He hits the kind of bottom when he goes to an anti-war rally in Cambridge near Harvard and it turns into a riot and he sees himself getting caught up in the riot and the madness of the crowd. And when he comes back to Holy Cross after midnight, he goes to the chapel, he hadn’t prayed in a long time. Kneels in front of the chapel and prays to God and says, if you will take anger out of my heart, I will never hate again. And that’s his beginning of coming back to his fat when we see that process. And the other significant fate component is that once the Anita Hill charges come out, his hearings enter a new phase in his mind and his wife’s mind and they really feel it’s a spiritual battle and they rely on their faith to see them through that and both of them talk about that. So, the faith element is an important one. I mean, that story alone would be amazing to tell. It is amazing. And of course, he tells us so much better than I tell it. You know, I appeal to your listeners to go and hear the real thing. I’m excited about that. Now, Michael, the movie theater, so folks can go see you have a listing on the website so they can go look and see if it’s local to them. And then they can also mount an effort to get it to a local theater if it’s not there yet. Right? Exactly. If they go to our website,, we list all the theaters where it’s playing. I know you’re in Texas and a whole bunch of Texas theaters should have it now, Austin, San Antonio, Kingwood. But each week, new theaters are added, it’s been in 94 theater so far. But if it’s not in a theater near you and there’s a group of you, we can make a show happen where you are. And as you just said, Rick, there’s a place on the website to sign up for that. But I really appeal to your listeners to go and travel the extra 20-30 minutes if it’s not that convenient and go see it. February is the perfect month, it’s Black History Month. Justice Thomas’s life should be celebrated and it is not sufficiently during this month, but any month is a good month. And bring your children, bring people who do not necessarily politically agree with you. I think they should all hear his story and at least understand where he’s coming from. So, I appeal to your listeners to go to the movie and watch it. It’ll be a great a great evening. And for our listeners in other States and across the nation on our 300 stations, there’s a listing there where you can find the movie close to you and if not, bring it to your community. Great, great opportunity to honor a man that’s served us quite well and hopefully will for years to come. Michael, I just want to thank you personally for taking on this project and doing this. I think it’s great for jurisprudence. I think it’s great for our people to understand what this man has been through and how blessed we are to have him on the Supreme Court right now. Well, thank you. It was actually an honor to do it. But I appreciate your sentiments, Rick, thank you. That’s Michael Pack. Folks, the website is, go check it out. We’ll be right back with David and Tim Barton. Hey, this is Tim Barton with WallBuilders. 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Go to the WallBuilders website and bring a speaker to your area. We’re back on WallBuilders Live back with David and Tim Barton. Special thanks to Michael Pack for joining us on the program and for this documentary, this new movie that is out about Clarence Thomas. David, Tim, what do you think? Tim: Well, guys, I’m going to jump in first. One of the things I really appreciated even we heard in the interview is, Clarence Thomas has defined himself in a very strong position for a lot of years, even though there’s been some accusations against his character. And we probably can come back and talk about how the Left has so often tried to vilify people that have done some really good things and tried to make their legacy be based on an accusation against him. And maybe for some people in some situations, there was a genuine mistake that was made. David: Well, let me even add, Tim, because you mentioned that they trying to vilify. You know, I thought Pelosi’s response over the Trump, even though he was acquitted, she said, yeah, but he’s forever been impeached. It’s like, we got what we wanted. We wanted you to be a guy in history that you’re ever. And I remember back, because I was very actively involved politically when the Anita Hill stuff was going on. And it was the same kind of stuff that went on. Maybe something happened, but there never was any evidence to it, it was always accusations and media was just… Kind of like with Kavanaugh, the Kavanaugh, hearings, all the slander, the accusations, you know, never any proof. And after the fact with Kavanaugh, right, so many people came out and said, yeah, I was lying about it, whatever else. Anyway, that is one of the problems is there used to be a notion, believe every women and then many women that have made these accusations that we are lying, anyway. Beyond all of that, one of the things I so appreciate about Clarence Thomas, is he will not allow himself to be defined as a victim. And with his testimony and which I’m so excited as Rick, because you mentioned to see this movie, I’m very excited about being able to see him expressing his own words, some of the things that maybe we’ve read about he’s written, we’ve kind of heard some allusions to it at times. But when he talks about he was so filled with anger, he was so filled with frustration and you know, Black Panther, right, I mean, Malcolm X, all these kind of things going on at the time. And in the midst of everything he’s doing, he decides that he anger is not the way for him anymore. And so, I thought it was so cool, when he prays to God and says, if you take this anger out of my heart, I will never hate again. If you look at him now, you would never think this dude used to have a major anger problem and you would never think he was a victim. He’s a guy who has such a cool testimony of, you know, coming out of nowhere and what the American Dream is all about. That you can work really hard, you can accomplish things, you can progress, you can do. Then in America, one of the great things about freedom and opportunity is when you apply hard work and you have freedom and there’s great opportunity, you can achieve really significant things and Clarence Thomas is such a unique example of some of that. And so certainly, looking as the interview highlight of this testimony of his Christian faith and now his faith is very important to him, you know, dad, I know that you’ve had a chance to meet him on several occasions. Our good friends over at First liberty, Kelly Shackleford and they’re doing stuff with him periodically throughout the year. And Kelly speaks very highly of him. And it’s interesting to see guys like this that are in a very prominent position and yet, even in that prominent position, they’re still so grounded and so… But he’s got such a cool story anyway, because he was in really, really dire poverty. I mean, he was in, I don’t know how dire you can describe it. He was really, really poor. And so, for him to be in his early 30s, he was running a federal agency back at that point in time. And I mean, to come from poverty to where and at the time he was running the agency, he was still black activists really angry, dude. I mean, he was really kind, I’m going to get you guys Which was interesting to me because I certainly, you know, I don’t know a whole lot about Reagan’s administration. Certainly, I’ve read books about Reagan. I’ve heard a lot of stories, know a lot of people that knew Reagan. But it’s interesting, knowing that Thomas was part of the Reagan administration when he has some seemingly very non-conservative, non-Reagan positions in some of these areas. And now seeing where he is today where you go, no, like today, it would totally make sense that he was part of the Reagan administration. But if that’s not who he was back then… Oh, not as a Black Panther activist kind of guy. I mean… No. Yeah, I never would have guessed that and especially in connection with the Reagan administration. So, there’s just so many aspects that’s so interesting. I’m very interested and curious in this movie when it comes out to learn more of this story and get some more of those details. Looking forward to it as well. We’re going to have links today at to make it easy for you to find a place to watch the movie or to get the DVD. We’re going to take a quick break, you’re listening to WallBuilders Live. 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We call it the Quick Start Guide to the Constitution, because in just a few hours through these videos, you will learn the citizen’s guide to America’s Constitution, you’ll learn what you need to do to help save our constitutional republic. It’s fun, it’s entertaining and it’s going to inspire you to do your part to preserve freedom for future generations. It’s called Constitution Alive with David Barton and Rick Green. You can find out more information on our website now at We’re back here on WallBuilders Live, thanks for staying with us. Today we’re talking about the new movie about Clarence Thomas that is very revealing, just about his entire life story, the power of what he came through and the differences he’s made for the nation and hopefully will continue to make. You know, one of the other things that really stood out as Michael was talking about the movie was how the faith became such a prominent part of his change. And the time that I’ve known the Thomas’s and his wife, Jenny, what a great lady, just such a class act. And as they came to Christ, they have helped so many others come to Christ. She has a real Ministry of ministering to people in the New Age kind of realm, the kind of, you know, alternative religions and they’ve been so grounded. And to hear Michael say that, yeah, you know, their faith was important, but when they got in that Anita Hill situation, it really came out in a much deeper level. And you can kind of call it spiritual warfare. I mean, they really did realize this was a spiritual attack. So I think one of the things that’s been really cool about Justice Thomas is how strong his faith has been. It was not long ago that he was speaking at the dedication of the new chapel at Hillsdale. And while there, he gave a lot of his testimony and it’s a lot more than even what Michael was sharing. Again, we haven’t seen the movie, looking forward to seeing it and hearing Clarence Thomas talk for that many hours in the interview would have been really cool. But his faith is something is really known for. And the other thing that I think that the Clarence has done a great job of doing is really staking out ground as a constitutional intellectual. He doesn’t always write many opinions, but when he does, oh, my gosh, they’re so strong, as he did with the Second Amendment opinion and the Heller case, when that was the first time you really had a full on second member case at the court under the incorporation doctrine and he came out in such a good historical exegesis, a constitutional exegesis. He’s really done a good job of being an intellectual thinker from a constitutional standpoint. And he was always kind of solid when Scalia was there because, you know, Scalia kind of took that role. But you’ve really seeing Justice Thomas do some amazing opinions. And knowing how amazing some of his decisions, how good they were, how constitutionally sound they were, it’s interesting, just thinking about what his legacy going to be. Certainly, he’s left a pretty good legacy, some great decisions, his faith, his testimony and yet we live in a culture where people want to believe accusations more than the good thing somebody has done. Right? If you look back to even George Washington, now Washington’s villainized. We can’t celebrate George Washington. We can’t celebrate Christopher Columbus, even though there’s so many accusations that are just ungrounded, unsubstantiated, not true and yet today, no, we can’t celebrate Columbus. I mean, go down the list or even with Brett Kavanaugh, there’s so many people that attack them, because they don’t like who they are, they don’t like what they represent. You know, whatever the case is, they want somebody different, they want something else. And so, there’s so many accusations. And Clarence Thomas certainly seem to be a guy that has suffered the brunt of a lot of attacks, a lot of Leftist attacks, Leftist accusations. And it does to me raise the point that this is why we have to be careful. You know, dad, you often point out the verse from Proverbs that you need to hear both sides of the story. Right? That one side sounds good until the other comes and cross-examined them and then the truth kind of comes out. And so often with personalities where there’s a lot of talk, where they’re in positions of power and influence and so there’s a lot of conversation about them, a lot of times you hear one voice and not the other. And certainly, there’s been a lot of attacks against Clarence Thomas, but dad, as you mentioned, he’s been so strong constitutionally, his faith, his testimony and he’s somebody that certainly as President Trump has been able to nominate more and more conservative justices, he’s someone that has been kind of a stable that you don’t have to worry about his vote. Right? It used to be that with Justice Kennedy, you kind of wondered, right, where’s Kennedy going to go now with Justice Roberts? Right? Chief Justice Roberts, every now and then you’re like, well, I’m not really sure how this decision is going to go. Clarence Thomas has been a guy you’ve never really had a wonder about. And as we have praised Trump for the reshaping, the remaking of the courts on so many levels, Clarence Thomas is a guy, not there by Trump, but certainly who is such a good ally and align so well with the guys that Trump has been able to appoint. And guys, looking forward, I think it’s real possible that Trump wins this election. He, I think for sure is going to be able to replace Ginsburg, in real possible might get a briar or somebody else in a second term. So, it’ll be really interesting to see how the court continues to be reshaped under the Trump administration. Well, it’s a great time to be alive, guys. I mean, it’s just exciting to see these major decisions being made and these appointments that Trump is making, the thoroughness with which his team has done such a great job of vetting these judges. And just as you said, Tim, I mean, how the court has been reshaped in his administration in a very positive direction. As we would say here at WallBuilders Live, certainly, if you care about the Constitution, if you care about the Declaration of Independence, if you care about following the rules and actually making sure the court is only doing what it’s supposed to do, if all those things are important to you, then Clarence Thomas has a justice that you should very much admire and want to see more of. And it’s been exciting to see that happen in the Trump administration and Lord willing, we will get a lot more of those kind of Judges on the bench. Even though that’s not the purpose of the court to shape policy, not at all, not what the founders ever intended. But unfortunately, that’s how the system is working right now. And until we have a Convention of States and until we have a restructuring of the system itself and put the court back in the proper place, these appointments are vital for decades to come, vitally important for us to pay attention to them as well. 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I can still see the ugliness in this mans eyes. Horrible human being. She's an extremely brave woman coming forward in front of so many people like that. I doubt I would be strong enough. Created equal clarence thomas in his own words watch streamer.
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