Clarence Thomas and Me - City Journal
Jan 14, 2024 · Justice Clarence Thomas is unquestionably a towering figure in American jurisprudence. As Scott Douglas Gerber, a leading authority on his legal theories, has noted, Thomas’s impact on constitutional law over the last quarter-century has been stunning.
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution | Manhattan Institute
But Thomas, who joined the Court after eight years running one of the myriad administrative agencies that the Great Society had piled on top of FDR’s batch, had deep misgivings about the new governmental order. He shared the framers’ vision of …
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution | Manhattan Institute
Clarence Thomas is our era’s most consequential jurist, as radical as he is brave. During his almost three decades on the bench, he has been laying out a blueprint for remaking Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Clarence Thomas and Me: Glenn Loury on Justice Thomas's Legacy
In his essay for the Winter issue of City Journal, contributing editor and Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury explores Thomas’s legacy alongside his own experience as a black conservative public intellectual.
Reading the Constitution Right - City Journal
Apr 1, 2007 · In 1991, George H. W. Bush nominated 43-year-old court of appeals judge Clarence Thomas, who had been on the bench only 19 months, for a seat on the Supreme Court. The president declared that “race played no part in his selection,” but the statement was hard to …
Clarence Thomas, Created Equal - City Journal
Oct 2, 2007 · The tragedy of affirmative action is nakedly apparent in the career of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, was published Monday. Liberals portray Justice Thomas as a beneficiary of affirmative action.
Ilya Shapiro, Robert George & Randall Kennedy – Clarence Thomas…
Jan 19, 2024 · Do Clarence Thomas’s controversial stances render him a traitor to African Americans, as Randall claims? Or does that unfairly circumscribe the political positions available to blacks?
Justice Thomas Lecture at Manhattan Institute - Blogger
Oct 20, 2008 · The following is an excerpt from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute last Thursday: When John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country," we heard his words with ears that had been conditioned to receive this message ...
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution – The Florida Bar
For readers only passingly familiar with the life and jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Myron Magnet’s new book, Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution, provides a brief but thoughtful introduction to both.
Clarence Thomas’s Constitutional Excavation - Manhattan Institute
Justice Thomas’s confirmation a month later set into motion another big dig — his painstaking, careful, and relentless quest to unearth, clause by clause, issue by issue, the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States. The two projects were animated by radically different goals.