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Hey, There, Pay Attention -- The Supreme Court May Be Up For Grabs

Martin Garbus | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, John McCain, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Obama Supreme Court, John McCain Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Election 2008 Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Politics News

For the first time in decades, the makeup on the Court is direct and center in the election. McCain and Obama have staked out totally different positions -- and whoever wins will have two nominations.

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HBO's Recount: Hanging Chads, the Price of Oil and Understanding the Past When It Happens

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kevein Spacey, Al Gore, Jim Baker, HBO the Recount, Katherine Harris, Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush, Antonin Scalia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oil, Politics News

I realize now George W. Bush didn't steal the election from Al Gore. It was stolen for him by Jim Baker III and his team of legal snakes that included the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Toobin: A McCain Court Could Overturn Roe In "Maybe A Year"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

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You know what they say: You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, and you can also pick the next three justices to sit on the Supreme Court. ...

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Code Words and McCain's Speech on Judges

Doug Kendall | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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If the proper role of the judiciary is going to be one of "the defining issues of this presidential election," as John McCain asserted today, he shoul...

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Thomas: No Questions in 2 Years

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Two years and 144 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments. It is a period of ...

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Barack Obama is the Foil to Wedge Politics

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.26.2008 | Politics

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Obama's impressive win tonight in the South Carolina Democratic primary, where huge numbers of white people of all ages voted for him, shows that he is the true candidate of multicultural America.

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Clarence Thomas: "I Wouldn't Say I Like" Being Supreme Court Judge

Think Progress | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

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Clarence Thomas hates his job. Earlier this week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at Chapman University, revealing that he doesn't even r...

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Giuliani To Conservatives: I'll Pick Your Kind Of Judges

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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Rudy Giuliani assured a conservative legal group Friday that if elected president he would appoint federal judges who adhere to their principles. He a...

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Thomas: My Yale Law Degree Is Worth '15 Cents'

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 10.21.2007 | Politics

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in ...

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Other Supreme Court Justices Find Thomas' Biography "Unseemly"

Think Progress | Posted 10.15.2007 | Media

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Supreme Court justices reportedly are aren't thrilled with Clarence Thomas's new biography. The NY Posts's Cindy Adams writes, "Phrases swatted about ...

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Beware! The GOP Space Aliens from Xandur have Arrived

Sherman Yellen | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics

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This past week felt like a bad sci-fi movie released by the moguls of Washington. Many of the Republican notables have finally broken out of their p...

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Thomas-2 Says Sexism is Alive and Well in the Workplace

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Isiah Thomas, Isiah Thomas Sexual Harassment, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Anucha Browne Sanders, Sexual Harassment, Politics News

After all this time, after all those women rising to positions of power, after all those hours of sensitivity training, could women still be battling the unwanted attentions of men on the job?

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Power In Washington DC, Stripped Naked

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 10.06.2007 | Media

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Armstrong Williams is the talk show host who was paid cash by the Bush administration to broadcast propaganda. That's an interesting choice to host Clarence Thomas' book party.

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The More Things Change

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Racism Vocabulary, Race in Politics, Clarence Thomas, Hispanic Americans, George W. Bush, Racism, Miguel Estrada, Playing the Race Card, Politics News

One of the most interesting -- and perhaps bedeviling -- linguistic transformations in American politics is conservatives' recent adoption of anti-racism vocabulary.

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More Than His Grandfather's Son: Understanding Clarence Thomas

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

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For the thin-skinned Thomas race has always lurked close to the surface -- often too close. And it's intimately, but falsely, intertwined with the debate over conservative ideology.

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You've Come How Far, Baby?

Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen | Posted 10.03.2007 | Business

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In what can only be regarded as a dirty joke, Clarence Thomas' book appears in stores just as a jury has found that Knicks coach Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a colleague.

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Doubting Thomas

Rusty Unger | Posted 10.03.2007 | Media

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It really is fascinating, so many years later, to learn that your first reaction upon learning that you might be nominated was: Can't they ask the Hispanic guy?

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"60 Minutes" Offered No Rebuttal To Thomas' Anita Hill Claims

Media Matters For America | Posted 10.02.2007 | Media

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The September 30 broadcast of CBS' 60 Minutes featured an interview with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, which coincided with the October 1 rel...

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Anita Hill Writes NYT Op-Ed: "I Will Not Stand By Silently"

New York Times | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics

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On Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas's at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. I stand by my t...

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Clarence Thomas, Rupert Murdoch, And The Candidates

Jon Wiener | Posted 10.02.2007 | Home

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The publication of Clarence Thomas's memoir, My Grandfather's Son, makes you wonder: how come none of the presidential candidates have said a word about the Supreme Court in any of their debates?

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Clarence Thomas: Nobody Knows the Trouble He's Seen

Trey Ellis | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics

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Instead of being a beacon of pride for young black kids that, like him, might have been raised in poverty, he is an embarrassment.

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Mr. Justice Whoop-dee-damn-doo

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.30.2007 | Politics

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The Roberts-Scalia-Thomas-Alito- and-sometimes-Kennedy fivesome on the Court today is the closest the country has come to the domination of the third branch of government.

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Meet Clarence Thomas, Self-Loather

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.29.2007 | Politics

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Racial preferences helped get him in the door of Yale, but they damn sure didn't take his classes or take his exams or pass the bar for him. He had to do that on his own, even if his skin color were green.

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Score-Settling Thomas Lashes Out At Liberals Who "Desecrated" His Life

Washington Post | Robert Barnes, Michael A. Fletcher and Kevin Merida | Posted 09.28.2007 | Home

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Justice Clarence Thomas settles scores in an angry and vivid forthcoming memoir, scathingly condemning the media, the Democratic senators who opposed ...

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