updated Sun. August 11, 2024
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Madison.com
March 29, 2018
Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence in Holder v. Hall in 1994, did not leave any doubt as to how he felt on this issue: “We have involved the federal courts, and indeed the Nation, in the enterprise of systematically dividing the country into electoral districts along racial lines—an enterprise ofÃâà...
NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
March 27, 2018
All nine Supreme Court Justices pose for a group photo in the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court Building on June 1, 2017. Seated from left, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas,Ãâà...
Law.com
March 27, 2018
That demand obviously would not sit well with Justice Clarence Thomas, who has been highly critical of his colleagues' reluctance to revisit the Second Amendment since their landmark individual right ruling in 2008. Thomas, who has called the amendment a “constitutional orphan” and a “disfavored right”Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
March 21, 2018
A few weeks ago, New York magazine ushered in Women's History Month with a cover story on a man. “The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas,” by former New York Times editor Jill Abramson, opens with a fresh accusation against the Supreme Court justice. Moira Smith, a lawyer, says that ThomasÃâà...
Quartz
March 18, 2018
Peaches threw a huge party at a strangers' house, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the story. (public domain/screenshot from case). The matter of Peaches' guerrilla house party is a prime example of this. It's a delightfully written opinion by justice Clarence Thomas, who is no partygoer and admits thatÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 18, 2018
No, the one person who should be feeling the most pressure is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It was clear last spring that Thomas — if he really cares about the principles he's fought for on the court — should step down before Trump leaves office. But with what was then a 52-48 Senate majorityÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 11, 2018
Hill rose to prominence 27 years ago, when she accused Clarence Thomas of making sexually explicit remarks after she refused to date him. Testifying during Thomas' televised confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hill said Thomas made persistent advances and spoke graphicallyÃâà...
Altoona Mirror
February 28, 2018
New York Magazine has assembled “The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas.” The author is longtime anti-Thomas journalist Jill Abramson. For more than 4,000 words, Abramson labors to relitigate Thomas accuser Anita Hill's dramatic loss in the court of public opinion. According to one poll at the time,Ãâà...
The Federalist
February 23, 2018
The most recent man firmly positioned in the front lines of this trial by media is Clarence Thomas, whose accusers are now calling for his impeachment. The prominent media stories of women who want Thomas removed from the Supreme Court and disciplined are filled with details and emotions, but theyÃâà...
WNYC
February 23, 2018
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. Jill Abramson, political columnist for the Guardian, former executive editor of The New York Times, co-author with Jane Mayer of the 1994 book, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, talks about herÃâà...
Seattle Times
February 22, 2018
Back then, she told the Observer this week, “I was certainly aware that as black women we were challenging the white man's choice, who was Clarence Thomas. But I didn't really stop to think then that had there been white women, there might have been a different outcome. Now it's juxtaposing with theÃâà...
Newsweek
February 22, 2018
On Monday, Jill Abramson penned a scurrilous article for New York magazine titled “ The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas ”—the latest in a long line of shameful attacks on the Supreme Court justice. Abramson claims she has new evidence that proves Thomas lied at his confirmation hearing andÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 21, 2018
In more news on sexual harassment and assault, a woman who has accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment is calling for his impeachment from the bench. Journalist Angela Wright-Shannon says Thomas repeatedly pressured her to date him and made comments about herÃâà...
NPR
February 20, 2018
Back in 1991, his former colleague Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, a story broken by our own Nina Totenberg. In dramatic confirmation hearings, Thomas denied all the charges and was confirmed. Journalist Jill Abramson covered that story then and has now revisited theÃâà...
New York Magazine
February 20, 2018
It's well-known that Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas often stakes out positions distinctly to the right of his fellow conservatives on the Court, and that he's significantly wordier in dissents than in majority or concurrent opinions. Both tendencies were abundantly in evidence today when, in the middleÃâà...
Newsweek
February 20, 2018
Lost in the din of the 2016 presidential election was a proto- #MeToo charge that called out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas was famously accused of sexual harassment when law professor Anita Hill detailed such allegations during his 1991 confirmation hearing. Hill had worked withÃâà...
New York Magazine
February 18, 2018
During the 1991 hearings, EEOC employees Rose Jourdain, Sukari Hardnett, and Angela Wright accused their boss Clarence Thomas of having engaged in inappropriate workplace talk, which he denied. The three women weren't called to formally testify; instead, Wright and Jourdain were interviewedÃâà...
