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People are always looking for a politician with real convictions.

He won the popular vote this time.

looks like the perfect amount of fancy. wish the american dream could handle less and more color! man, those are weird trees. can't imagine how they stay vertical. looks like a great place. had any coffee? iguanas? this evening, we were at a friend's place on the ridge, watching a movie with some f...

looks like it's going to maybe rain all day...

As I noted in the post that I made before reading the article, it is possible that he was critical of some aspect of the case in Brown, or that he was critical of some way in which Brown was subsequently applied. That turned out to be the case, on further reading. Yes, it could be said that Thomas ...

But one question that may be relevant is to what extent Brown demanded the things that Thomas criticizes. Thomas opposes actions that have been taken by courts, and that used Brown as justification. The Bar Association article emphasizes the "integrationist approach" that Thomas has criti...

... It soon becomes clear, however, that Thomas's real target is not the lower court, but one of the landmark decisions of the Court on which Thomas now sits: the 1954 opinion issued in Brown v. Board of Education. Although he directs his attention to what he describes as the trial court's "mi...

... one of the most powerful indictments of Brown’s integrationist zeal was penned by Justice Clarence Thomas in a concurring opinion in the 1996 Missouri v. Jenkins decision. In Jenkins, Justice Thomas complained that “it never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anyth...

A lot of people disagree with Thomas' approach to racial issues. He's one of the advocates of "color blind law", who finds any legal distinction between races to be unconstituional or at best suspicious. That's why he supports Brown, and cases like it that have arisen subsequently, but op...

Unfortunately, there was no such reference, no evaluation, no defense, no analysis, pretty much nothing concerning Justice Thomas' language from his concurring opinion in "Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP". Well, there are quite a few quotes of Thomas' words from ...