Clarence Thomas
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Supreme Court Justice: Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas was sworn in to office on Wednesday, October 23, 1991 after he was accused by a woman named Anita Hill for sexual misconduct. After exploring the charges from Hill, the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature found no convincing evidence of proof in the allegations against Thomas. The Committee gave him no recommendation when reporting his nomination to Senate. The Senate voted 52 to 48 to the appointment of Thomas into the High Court. Since then, Clarence Thomas has served as an associated justice on the Supreme Court. Thomas frequently votes toward the sides of the conservatives and contrary to many observers, he did not mimic the conservative views of Antonin Scalia. On June 23, 1948, Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. He was the son of M.C. Thomas and Leola Anderson. He attended Conception Seminary College, College of the Holy Cross, and Yale Law School. He received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He married Kathy Ambush in 1971, divorced in 1984, and then remarried to Virginia Lamp in 1987. He had one son, Jamal Adeen Thomas, from his marriage to Kathy Ambush. Thomas was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush in 1991. Clarence Thomas was taking the seat of former Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, who retired from the Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas originally was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. When Marshall stepped down, President Bush decided to raise Thomas to the Supreme Court. To this day, Clarence Thomas still holds his seat as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court. He often sides with the conservatives but has developed his own personal view on issues that come to the court. On November 26, 2012, the case of Vance V. Ball State University was argued. A woman by the name of Maetta Vance filed a complaint about a coworker
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Supreme Court Justice: Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas was sworn in to office on Wednesday, October 23, 1991 after he was accused by a woman named Anita Hill for sexual misconduct. After exploring the charges from Hill, the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature found no convincing evidence of proof in the allegations against Thomas. The Committee gave him no recommendation when reporting his nomination to Senate. The Senate voted 52 to 48 to the appointment of Thomas into the High Court. Since then, Clarence Thomas has served as an associated justice on the Supreme Court. Thomas frequently votes toward the sides of the conservatives and contrary to many observers, he did not mimic the conservative views of Antonin Scalia. On June 23, 1948, Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. He was the son of M.C. Thomas and Leola Anderson. He attended Conception Seminary College, College of the Holy Cross, and Yale Law School. He received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He married Kathy Ambush in 1971, divorced in 1984, and then remarried to Virginia Lamp in 1987. He had one son, Jamal Adeen Thomas, from his marriage to Kathy Ambush. Thomas was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush in 1991. Clarence Thomas was taking the seat of former Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, who retired from the Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas originally was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. When Marshall stepped down, President Bush decided to raise Thomas to the Supreme Court. To this day, Clarence Thomas still holds his seat as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court. He often sides with the conservatives but has developed his own personal view on issues that come to the court. On November 26, 2012, the case of Vance V. Ball State University was argued. A woman by the name of Maetta Vance filed a complaint about a coworker