Justice Thomas was a dissenting writer in the case of Stenberg v. Carhart, a case that involved a Nebraska law that banned partial birth abortions. The Supreme Court of the United States majority ruled that the Nebraska law was unconstitutional in placing an undue burden upon a woman's right to an abortion.
Thomas' dissenting opinion argued that while the Constitution defined the right to an abortion, it did not define how a state must regulate those abortions.
In the conclusion of his dissent, he wrote:. Hill was called to testify at Thomas' confirmation hearings, where she alleged that Thomas had subjected her to inappropriate harassing comments of a sexual nature. The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Clarence Thomas Supreme Court. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles.
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Share this page Follow Ballotpedia. What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. Marsh , U. And those precedents do not empower this Court to chip away at the States' prerogative to do so on the grounds the dissent invokes today.
Milford Central School , U. Nebraska law prohibiting partial-birth abortions held unconstitutional See also: United States Supreme Court Stenberg v. Carhart , U. Under Casey , the regulation before us today should easily pass constitutional muster. But the Court's abortion jurisprudence is a particularly virulent strain of constitutional exegesis.
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For instance, in the case Virginia v. Many of his judicial opinions turn on the assertion that his methodology would produce better results for black people than the prevailing liberal orthodoxy. Still, Robin is not hurling insults. He is deconstructing a sphinx, and his point carries the uncomfortable ring of truth. If Thomas wants to take America back to its founding, that project entails reconciling slavery and the law.
Perhaps this simply cannot be done. For his part, Thomas has not tried, interpreting the post—Civil War amendments far more narrowly than other justices.
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas therefore deserves credit for attempting to understand the worldview of a jurist who at times can seem almost willfully perverse. He was raised by his harsh and inflexible grandfather, Myers Anderson, who maintained a middle-class life through ownership of a modest fuel-delivery business. He never praised the boys or showed them affection. In his presence there was no play, no fun, and little laughter. Anderson proceeded to throw him out of the house.
Small wonder that a jurist who learned at the knee of such a taskmaster would reject leniency for vagrants, mercy for criminals, and even integration measures. Nor does it come as a surprise that Thomas would open a dissenting opinion on affirmative action which he opposes with these lines from Frederick Douglass:. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Born in New Mexico around , Victorio grew up during a period of intense hostility between the native Apache Arthur Eggers, who was convicted of killing his wife, Dorothy, because of her alleged promiscuity, is executed at San Quentin Prison.
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Horace Lawson Hunley developed the foot submarine from a cylinder boiler. It was operated by a crew of eight—one person In the early nineteen-nineties, the school adopted an affirmative-action policy in order to create a more diverse student body.
Barbara Grutter, a white applicant who was denied admission, alleged that she was a victim of racial discrimination and that the policy violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Thomas also dissented in Grutter. The simplest, most effective way for the Law School to diversify itself would be to become less selective. It could accept anyone who completed a certified program.
Thomas does not believe this to be a constitutional value, much less one the Court should honor. Bakke, which declared the policy constitutional—is that diversity has an educational benefit: students will be exposed to different views and voices, which will challenge their beliefs.
It marks black people as victims and whites as saviors. In keeping with his conservative black nationalism, Thomas sees in such integration real harm to black people. Common experience and common sense confirm this understanding. Rather than setting up a conditional, he is presenting the inability to end racism as the condition of American society. In this sense, the story of Clarence Thomas is the story of the last half-century of American politics.
It is a story of defeat, not only of the civil-rights movement and the promise of black freedom but of a larger vision of democratic transformation, in which men and women act collectively to alter their estate. The citizens of the freedom struggle believed that society was made, and could be remade, through politics.
Many of their successors, including Thomas, no longer believe that kind of change is possible. A deep and abiding pessimism now pervades our politics, transcending the divisions of right and left.
Clarence Thomas, the most extreme Justice on the Supreme Court, turns out also to be the most emblematic. Should he remain on the bench for another nine years, he will be the longest-serving Justice in American history. In the case of Flowers v.
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