Clarence Thomas

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/19
  

  Clarence Thomas says a Smithsonian exhibit about him is wrong. (It’s not.)

  This is the second time the museum has come under fire for its treatment of the second African American member of the Supreme Court. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/31/2019
  

  Historians call Clarence Thomas’ anti-abortion argument, "A gross misuse of historical facts"

  “Linking the pro-choice movement to racism . . . He’s a bad man,” Georgia State law professor Eric Segall says

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/29/2019
  

  Adam Cohen: Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work

  by Adam Cohen

  The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  9-3-18
  

  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (a historian) drops a bombshell on the debate over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

  "I urged the president to nominate a different individual," Sasse said. "I urged the president to nominate a woman."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-2-18
  

  How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s

  And why it shouldn't.  For one thing, the FBI never talked to — or even knew to look for — four potential witnesses who had knowledge of Anita Hill’s complaints about Thomas.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-25-18
  

  What happens when women talk to Congress about sex

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  They’re repeatedly ignored.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-25-18
  

  "A high-tech lynching"

  How Clarence Thomas’s fury saved his Supreme Court nomination

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-24-18
  

  Anita Hill's Testimony Didn't Stop a Supreme Court Confirmation…

  But It Did Affect Election Results

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  9-24-18
  

  Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Christine Blasey Ford and the historical fallacy

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The historical fallacy: Because something happened many times before, it’s happening again.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  The scathing ad 1,600 black women bought to oppose Clarence Thomas

  On Nov. 17, 1991, more than 1,600 African American women, outraged by the Senate’s mistreatment of Anita Hill, took out an ad in the New York Times with the headline: “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-18-18
  

  No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991

  The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-18
  

  Echoes of Anita Hill, but in a Different Era for Women

  Now it is Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh who faces a hearing to address explosive accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.

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• SOURCE: Cleveland Jewish News
  4-9-18
  

  Clarence Thomas’ wife says Jews ‘gave up their firearms to Hitler’

  The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians, who have noted how outnumbered Jews were in countries in which they were slaughtered.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2-18-18
  

  Writer Makes the Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas

  by Jill Abramson

  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to talk seriously about impeachment, argues Jill Abramson.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Times
  9-25-17
  

  Smithsonian gives Clarence Thomas a spot in year-old African American history museum

  Justice Thomas’ apparent omission irked conservative observers, who suspected an ideological bias among Smithsonian officials and called for the influential jurist’s inclusion in the museum.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  10-23-16
  

  Petition Started to Include Clarence Thomas in National African American Museum

  The author of the petition believes that Thomas was dissed because of his political views.

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• 12-11-15
  

  Justice Thomas Needs a Lesson in the History of the 2nd Amendment

  by Patrick J. Charles

  He also might want to reconsider Originalism. Oh, and the NRA once supported the position he now blasts as unconstitutional!

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  6-26-15
  

  Clarence Thomas invokes comparison to slavery in raging gay-marriage dissent

  Thomas wrote that there is no "dignity" clause in the US Constitution — and that, even if there was, the government could not bestow it upon a person or take it away.

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• SOURCE: Education News
  5-12-15
  

  Historian Alan Singer says he’s not qualified to be on the Supreme Court and neither are Roberts, Scalia, Alito or Thomas

  That’s because he’s an activist and so are they.

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• SOURCE: Corey Robin (blog)
  5-5-14
  

  Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution

  by Corey Robin

  Thomas believes that racism is so profoundly inscribed in the white soul that you’ll never be able to remove it.