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 - 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 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.
The Founders’ Grandson, Part I | Clarence Thomas' Constitution …
Oct 29, 2017 · A classmate’s brutal response to the news of Martin Luther King’s shooting during Thomas’s first year—“I hope the son of a bitch dies”—“finished off my vocation,” Thomas recalls. When he came home and announced his resolve to quit, his disappointed grandfather turned him out of the house.
Clarence Thomas and Bohemian Grove: What goes on at the all-male ... - BBC
Apr 7, 2023 · Most famously, a planning meeting for the Manhattan Project in 1942 held at the Grove later led to the development of the atomic bomb. What really goes on there?
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.
In Prospect | City Journal
From strengthened Second Amendment protections to a ban on racially discriminatory school admissions policies and an end to a federally guaranteed right to an abortion, Thomas’s originalist constitutional views are now the law of the land.
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 ...
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas
Jul 9, 2022 · For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the Supreme Court’s recent opinions, his dystopia is becoming our...
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution - Manhattan Institute
May 7, 2019 · When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the Framers had written—the one that had established a federal government manned by the people’s elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens’ inborn rights while leaving them free to work out ...