In his opinion for the court, Justice Thomas held that "when Milford denied the Good News Club access to the school's limited public forum on the ground that the Club was religious in nature, it discriminated against the Club because of its religious viewpoint in violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
Justice Thomas was a dissenting writer in the case of Stenberg v. Carhart, a case that involved a Nebraska law that banned partial birth abortions. The Supreme Court of the United States majority ruled that the Nebraska law was unconstitutional in placing an undue burden upon a woman's right to an abortion.
Thomas' dissenting opinion argued that while the Constitution defined the right to an abortion, it did not define how a state must regulate those abortions. In the conclusion of his dissent, he wrote:. Hill was called to testify at Thomas' confirmation hearings, where she alleged that Thomas had subjected her to inappropriate harassing comments of a sexual nature. The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Clarence Thomas Supreme Court.
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What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. Marsh , U. And those precedents do not empower this Court to chip away at the States' prerogative to do so on the grounds the dissent invokes today. Milford Central School , U. Nebraska law prohibiting partial-birth abortions held unconstitutional See also: United States Supreme Court Stenberg v. Carhart , U. Under Casey , the regulation before us today should easily pass constitutional muster.
But the Court's abortion jurisprudence is a particularly virulent strain of constitutional exegesis. And so today we are told that 30 States are prohibited from banning one rarely used form of abortion that they believe to border on infanticide.
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He graduated in and then continued his studies at Conception Abbey Seminary in Missouri. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He left the seminary after overhearing a fellow student making fun of King's death. He became active in many social causes there, including protesting the Vietnam War and campaigning for civil rights.
Thomas also helped establish a black student union. After college, he went to Yale University Law School, where his views started to become more conservative though he also benefited from the school's affirmative action policies. Thomas returned to the South to work as an assistant to Missouri Attorney General John Danforth after earning his degree. After several years as a lawyer for the agricultural giant Monsanto, he moved to Washington, D.
Another president, George H. Bush, gave Thomas his first and only judgeship, nominating him to the U. Circuit Court of Appeals. In , President George H. The two men could not have been more different. Marshall was widely known as a liberal jurist and for his civil rights work before taking the bench.
Critics, on the other hand, attacked Thomas for his rigidly conservative views. Some also thought that he had too little experience as a judge.
During his confirmation hearings, Thomas remained quiet on several key issues, including abortion rights. One of the most infamous moments in Thomas's career, which almost cost him his post, was when one of his former aides at the EEOC, Anita Hill, came forward and testified that he had sexually harassed her during the time the two worked together.
She claimed that he had asked her to go out with him, discussed pornography and made inappropriate remarks about her body. Thomas patently denied the allegations, famously referring to the resulting hearings as, "a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
While the nation watched Hill's testimony with great interest, the committee decided that there was not enough evidence to prove her claims. The referee in the game shouldn't be a participant in the game. Thomas speaks at length about his journey from childhood in impoverished rural Georgia, to a stint in a Roman Catholic seminary, and on to the elite classrooms of Holy Cross and Yale. He describes his grandfather, a fuel oil deliveryman in Savannah, as one of the biggest influences on his life, teaching him determination and self-reliance.
Thomas says those values are what sustain him in the face of persistent criticism as a black conservative. Whereas you can do whatever to me, or to now HUD Secretary Ben Carson , and that's fine, because you're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
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