Hollywood these days is investing more and more resources into rebooting old franchises. And not just in movies. Last week, a new blue-ribbon committee to investigate and eliminate sexual harassment in Hollywood announced that its chairwoman would be Anita Hill.
Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t known for being particularly chatty on the bench, preferring to listen to arguments at the Court rather than engaging in the noisy sparring that some of the supremes seem to think passes for being judicious. Thomas doesn’t go out of his way to draw attention to…
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration’s revised travel ban its first legal victory on Monday, agreeing unanimously to consider the ban this October and allowing the ban to go partially into effect until then.
Texas senator Ted Cruz petitioned the Smithsonian Institution Monday to correct what he called its "mistake [of] omitting the enormous legacy and impact of Justice Thomas" at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Republican members of Congress have introduced companion resolutions urging the newly opened Smithsonian musem of African-American history to include the achievements of Justice Clarence Thomas, the second (and currently only) black member of the Supreme Court.
In his weekly column at the Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti takes note of Clarence Thomas's 25 years on the Supreme Court. Taciturn on and off the bench, Thomas has in recent days spoken at the Heritage Foundation as well as to WEEKLY STANDARD editor Bill Kristol on Conversations.…
Clarence Thomas has been on the Supreme Court for a quarter-century. And Jeffrey Toobin has loathed him for nearly all twenty-five of those years. For more than two decades, the New Yorker author and CNN pundit has written of Thomas time and time again in only the most contemptuous terms.
Justice Clarence Thomas's critics have long slandered him as "lazy," simply because he only rarely asks questions during oral arguments. But such criticism is entirely misguided, especially when one considers that Justice Thomas is the Court's most prolific opinion-writer, year in and year out (as…
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Clarence Thomas began his tenure on the United State Supreme Court on October 23, 1991—25 years ago this Sunday. The associate justice recently joined Bill Kristol for an episode of Conversations that looks back at Thomas's life, his time on the Court, and issues of culture and society. Watch the…
While serious foreign policy debate, like any kind of serious policy debate, has been virtually absent in this election, not talking about problems doesn't make them go away. In fact, the world has gotten much more dangerous under President Obama, and dealing with it will be a key challenge of the…
When the Smithsonian opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum last week, some of the day's loveliest moments involved President Obama and former President Bush, celebrating the event together with their wives and the American people. And rightly so: the museum is a…
In marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of Justice Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, lawyers and writers have rightly celebrated the judge's remarkable judicial opinions, especially the concurrences in dissents in which JThomas criticizes the Court for failing to vindicate the…
In this week's issue, venturing a thumbnail sketch of Justice Thomas's brand of constitutional interpretation, I noted a significant difference between Justice Thomas and other conservative "originalists": Unlike many "first-generation" originalists, Thomas expressly interprets the Constitution as…
What if the left threw a high-tech lynching and no one came? It happened this spring, although you probably didn’t notice. On April 16, HBO aired Confirmation, a docudrama version of Justice Clarence Thomas's 1991 Senate confirmation hearings—more specifically, of Anita Hill's sexual harassment…
This past Monday's business was briefly interrupted by the specter of BREAKING NEWS on the office television, featuring a photograph of Justice Clarence Thomas. For a fearful moment I wondered what the BREAKING NEWS might be – and was quickly reassured when I saw, from the crawl at the bottom of…
Hillary Clinton's recently released emails includes a memo sent by David Brock titled, "Memo on Impeaching Clarence Thomas."
For political observers, the story of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term was the clash of two great colliding forces. On one side stood the Court’s always-unified liberal bloc, fortified by the apostasies of Republican-appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy and sometimes Chief Justice John…
The State Department is presenting a global webcast on February 4, titled "From the Street to Mainstream: The Evolution of Rap/Hip Hop Music." The host of the webcast, rapper and State Department Music Ambassador Toni Blackman, will be joined by Pras Michel, a founding member of the hip hop group…
Chief Justice John Roberts held in his majority opinion today that Obamacare's individual mandate may be considered a constitutional tax rather than an unconstitutional mandate.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a challenge to the Obamacare ruling issued by a 3-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. That appellate court panel struck down Obamacare’s individual mandate but not the rest of the legislation, despite the White House’s assertion that…
Philip Klein: "Reid rewrites Senate rules with shocking move"
Jonathan Last: "Romney’s 'Core Constituency'”
When the Court hears 80 or so cases in a year, not all of them will be interesting. In fact, some of them will be dreadfully boring. Those tend to be known as "telecommunications cases." (The occasional "fleeting expletive" or "wardrobe malfunction" case notwithstanding.)
Common Cause embarrassed itself by attempting to disqualify Justices Scalia and Thomas from the Supreme Court's review of Citizens United v. FEC, in Common Cause's last-ditch effort to overturn the Court's year-old pro-free speech decision. Ben Smith's report demonstrates precisely how unfounded…
The New York Times runs a story today based on what appears to be an obviously frivolous petition filed at the Justice Department by the partisan left-wing activist group Common Cause. The group alleges that Justices Scalia and Thomas, by virtue of their appearance at a seminar held in Palm Springs…
Today, our culture is far less likely to raise up heroes than it is to exalt victims -- individuals who are overcome by the sting of oppression, injustice, adversity, neglect, or misfortune. Today, it seems that those who have succumbed to their circumstances are more likely to be singled out than…