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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall .
Clarence Thomas also stated that, "This is a case in which this sleaze, this dirt, was searched for by staffers of members of this committee. It was then leaked to the media. And this committee and this body validated it and displayed it in prime time over our entire nation." He called the hearing a "high tech lynching": [47]
Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,118 days (33 years, 64 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 910 days (2 years, 179 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
Articles relating to Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1948-, term 1991-) and his term in office. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir is the 2007 memoir of Clarence Thomas, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.. The book spans all of Thomas's life to the present, beginning with his early childhood in the Deep South and his mother's decision to send him and his brother to be raised by her father and stepmother as she felt unable to care for them. [1]
This was the thirty-third term of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas's tenure on the Court. Clarence Thomas 2023 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality: 12
Thomas dissented from the plurality's ruling that citizens of the U.S. designated as enemy combatants by the Executive Branch had the right to challenge their detention. Thomas, the only member of the Court to fully adopt the government's position, argued that the Court should defer to the broad war-making powers of the President, particularly ...
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari, in a case involving whether a federal law against felons possessing body armor was constitutional after United States v. Lopez , 514 U.S. 549 (1995), which was the first Supreme Court case since the New Deal to set limits upon Congress's Commerce Clause power.