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Jun 27 2022
News
Clarence Thomas signals interest in making it easier to sue media
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday expressed a desire to revisit a landmark 1964 ruling that makes it relatively difficult to bring successful lawsuits against media outlets for defamation.
Thomas’s statement came in response to the court’s decision to turn away an appeal from a Christian nonprofit group who disputed their characterization by the civil rights watchdog group
The Hill
Jun 24 2022
News
Thomas: Supreme Court should 'correct the error' on contraception and same-sex marriage
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in Friday's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, arguing the court should "correct the error" of rulings that protect same-sex marriage and contraception access.
The high court overturned the landmark case of Roe on Friday, with Justice Samuel Alito writing an opinion in favor of Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks of
Washington Examiner
Jun 18 2022
News
Ginni Thomas looks forward to speaking with House Jan. 6 committee
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, said she welcomes the opportunity to “clear up misconceptions” with the House Jan. 6 Committee.
Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, said this week that the committee would soon invite Mrs. Thomas to appear before the committee.
“I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions,” Mrs. Thomas told the
Washington Times
Jul 03 2022
Analysis
Justice Thomas rises: A monumental Supreme Court term's rightward shift shows no sign of slowing
Justice Clarence Thomas celebrated his 74th birthday last week with a gift he delivered himself — authoring the majority opinion in a gun rights case that will have nationwide implications.
It was the capstone to a monumental, but splintered term that saw the 6-3 conservative majority prevail on a bounty of hot-button issues and building momentum to a dramatic rightward shift that shows
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 16 2022
News
Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three people involved in the committee’s
Washington Post
Jun 30 2022
News
Justice Thomas cites debunked claim that Covid vaccines are made with cells from 'aborted children'
In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support Thursday for a debunked claim that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from “aborted children.”
His dissent came in a decision by the Supreme Court to not take up a legal challenge by New York health care workers who opposed the state’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
Thomas, citing the plaintiffs,
NBC News (Online)
Jun 27 2022
News
Samuel Jackson Irreverently Asks If ‘Uncle Clarence’ Thomas Also Wants To Outlaw Interracial Marriage After Roe
Samuel Jackson has called out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas following the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade, referring to Thomas as “Uncle Clarence.”
Early Saturday morning (June 25), Jackson took to his Twitter account and said, “How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia?!!
BET
Mar 29 2022
Analysis
Dems grapple with Clarence Thomas response
House Democrats are split over how to approach what they mostly agree is a clear conflict of interest for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Why it matters: Thomas has thus far resisted calls to recuse himself from election-related cases amid revelations about the activism of his wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, before the Jan. 6 insurrection. One remedy would be impeachment — a long
Axios
Jun 27 2022
Analysis
Here’s Why Justice Thomas Didn’t Mention Interracial Marriage When He Asked the Court to Rethink Several Cases After Overturning Roe v. Wade
A predictable chorus of critics has risen to excoriate Justice Clarence Thomas for — in the chorus’s view — hypocritically excluding a case that established a constitutional right to interracial marriage from a list of constitutional rights Thomas believes should be overturned along with Roe v. Wade (1973). A very brief sampling of the criticism is included below; the alleged hypocrisy cited
Law & Crime
May 31 2022
Analysis
What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women’s Elite Sports
The women on the Princeton University swim team spoke of collective frustration edging into anger. They had watched Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who swam for the University of Pennsylvania, win meet after meet, beating Olympians and breaking records.
On Jan. 9, the team met with Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference.
The swimmers, several of
New York Times (News)