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Clarence Thomas. Clarence Thomas delivers the opinion of the Court in Jones v. Hendrix. Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991.
On July 1, 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court of the United States to replace Thurgood Marshall, who had announced his retirement. [1] At the time of his nomination, Thomas was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; President Bush had appointed him to ...
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 10 (the Court's tenth associate justice seat by order of creation), which was established on April 10, 1869 by the 41st Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1869 (16 Stat. 44). [4] [a] This seat is currently occupied by Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is back on the bench after an unexplained one-day absence. Thomas, 75, was in his usual seat, to the right of Chief Justice John Roberts as the court met to ...
Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,076 days (33 years, 22 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 868 days (2 years, 137 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was absent from the court Monday with no explanation. Thomas, 75, also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do when they are ill ...
Democratic allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas illegally failed to disclose trips and gifts paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow were referred to a judicial committee.
t. e. The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the United States Constitution. Specifically, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, provides that the president of the United States nominates a justice and that the United States Senate provides ...