The Afro
by Erica ButlerAFRO Staff Writer
May 21, 2011
Clarence Thomas, the only Black justice on the Supreme Court, was welcomed with a standing ovation May 18 at a ceremony to dedicate an Augusta courthouse named after a civil rights leader. But not everyone in attendance was pleased to see him.According to the Associated Press, some residents were angered that Thomas, 62, was selected to speak at the grand opening of a courthouse named after civil rights lawyer John “Jack” Ruffin, Jr. Ruffin was the first black chief judge of the state Court of Appeals, and was recognized for his push to integrate local schools. Thomas’ known conservative record and firm stance against affirmative action programs have strained relations with Black residents in his home state.
Full Story: http://afro.com/sections/news/afro_briefs/story.htm?storyid=5113
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Monday, October 25, 2010
Supremely Bad Judgment
The New York Times
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 23, 2010
In the wacky coda to one of the most searing chapters in American history, everyone remained true to form.
Anita Hill reacted with starchy disgust.
Ginni Thomas came across like a spiritually addled nut.
Clarence Thomas was mute, no doubt privately raging about the trouble women have caused him.
And now into the circus comes Lillian McEwen, an old girlfriend of Thomas’s.
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/opinion/24dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 23, 2010
In the wacky coda to one of the most searing chapters in American history, everyone remained true to form.
Anita Hill reacted with starchy disgust.
Ginni Thomas came across like a spiritually addled nut.
Clarence Thomas was mute, no doubt privately raging about the trouble women have caused him.
And now into the circus comes Lillian McEwen, an old girlfriend of Thomas’s.
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/opinion/24dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Court opening a time of trepidation
Cincinnati.com
October 4, 2009
By Judge Nathaniel R. Jones
Since at least the late 1940s, I have been among those Supreme Court watchers who anxiously await the opening of the fall term of the court. My early interest was whetted by the World War II and post-World War II issues that were making their way to the front pages of newspapers and to the court's docket.
In 1944, in the midst of that war, the NAACP's top lawyers, Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the Texas White Primary law.
A number of educational cases worked their way up to the Supreme Court, setting the stage for the historic 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.
Thus, a series of decisions between 1944 and 1954, capped by Brown vs. Board of Education, removed the legal underpinnings of racial segregation. That set the nation on the road of correcting the demeaning social distortions that our courts had been enforcing against black Americans.
That journey is not yet complete, even with the election of a black president.
This year, I am again watching the Supreme Court as it begins its 2009 term.
The historic presence on the bench of a woman of color, a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, will be exciting in and of itself. But of added significance is the dignity she showed in navigating the torrents of her confirmation.
As the term unfolds, there is one case that may likely provide an opportunity for the conservative majority hell-bent on slamming shut the doors to the federal courts to victims of racial discrimination. In the case of Lewis vs. City of Chicago, 6,000 blacks who were found to have been discriminated against were denied relief because the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that they were too late in filing their claims. I am among those who fear that the result may be preordained.
In the last two sessions of the court, particularly since the departure of Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, the court majority, in its decisions on school desegregation in the Louisville and Seattle cases, has embraced a jurisprudence that places racial remedies on life support. Its holding last term on voting rights and affirmative action showed that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas are poised to lead the conservative majority to pulling the plug, thus killing enforcement of remedies when race is the issue.
Full Story: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091004/EDIT03/910040349/1019/EDIT/Court+opening+a+time+of+trepidation
October 4, 2009
By Judge Nathaniel R. Jones
Since at least the late 1940s, I have been among those Supreme Court watchers who anxiously await the opening of the fall term of the court. My early interest was whetted by the World War II and post-World War II issues that were making their way to the front pages of newspapers and to the court's docket.
In 1944, in the midst of that war, the NAACP's top lawyers, Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the Texas White Primary law.
A number of educational cases worked their way up to the Supreme Court, setting the stage for the historic 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.
Thus, a series of decisions between 1944 and 1954, capped by Brown vs. Board of Education, removed the legal underpinnings of racial segregation. That set the nation on the road of correcting the demeaning social distortions that our courts had been enforcing against black Americans.
That journey is not yet complete, even with the election of a black president.
This year, I am again watching the Supreme Court as it begins its 2009 term.
The historic presence on the bench of a woman of color, a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, will be exciting in and of itself. But of added significance is the dignity she showed in navigating the torrents of her confirmation.
As the term unfolds, there is one case that may likely provide an opportunity for the conservative majority hell-bent on slamming shut the doors to the federal courts to victims of racial discrimination. In the case of Lewis vs. City of Chicago, 6,000 blacks who were found to have been discriminated against were denied relief because the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that they were too late in filing their claims. I am among those who fear that the result may be preordained.
In the last two sessions of the court, particularly since the departure of Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, the court majority, in its decisions on school desegregation in the Louisville and Seattle cases, has embraced a jurisprudence that places racial remedies on life support. Its holding last term on voting rights and affirmative action showed that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas are poised to lead the conservative majority to pulling the plug, thus killing enforcement of remedies when race is the issue.
Full Story: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091004/EDIT03/910040349/1019/EDIT/Court+opening+a+time+of+trepidation
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