Clarence Thomas

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Sotomayor a "racist"? Really?

The elected wing of the GOP knows better. The entertainment wing -- Rush, Coulter et al. -- has a different agenda.
By Gene Lyons Jun 4, 2009

  • Are six Catholics too many for the Supreme Court?

    Not if one is a divorced Latina. Sotomayor would be a positive influence on the court's five male Catholics.
    By Frances Kissling May 31, 2009

  • Sonia Sotomayor is not Clarence Thomas

    Why do Republicans think Sotomayor is a mediocre beneficiary of affirmative action? Because they had their own.
    By Joe Conason May 29, 2009

  • Clarence Thomas is not a sellout

    Blacks who challenge affirmative action and other "black orthodoxies" are not betraying their race. Or so argues author Randall Kennedy.
    By James Hannaham January 21, 2008

  • Who would Antonin Scalia torture?

    Next week, when the Supreme Court hears a case challenging the use of lethal injections, we may learn more about the legal limits to state-sanctioned pain.
    By Alan Berlow January 2, 2008

  • Clarence Thomas casts himself in "Native Son"

    How can a justice with such a keen sense of his own persecution be so blind to others'?
    By Tim Grieve October 1, 2007

  • "The Nine"

    Jeffrey Toobin's new book peeks inside the sheltered world of the Supreme Court justices. Are the unpredictable personal dynamics among the justices more important than the agenda they brought with them?
    By Garrett Epps September 13, 2007

  • Condi Rice never looks back

    That attitude, says Marcus Mabry in his new biography of the secretary of state, has seriously harmed the United States.
    By Joe Conason May 4, 2007

  • A chicken hawk takes on a "hydra-headed enemy"

    Clarence Thomas says his colleagues aren't familiar with the ways of war. Tell it to John Paul Stevens.
    By Tim Grieve June 30, 2006

  • Quote of the Day

    Clarence Thomas says we need to pray for George W. Bush.
    By Tim Grieve May 22, 2006

  • Roberts and Scalia, peas in a pod?

    In his first dissent, the chief justice aligns himself with the far right.
    By Tim Grieve January 17, 2006

  • Miers: Not the first evangelical justice

    Born-again Christians say they're unrepresented. But Clarence Thomas was an evangelical when he joined the court.
    By Amy Sullivan October 6, 2005

  • Bush: "I picked the best person I could find"

    Echoing his father's comments about Clarence Thomas, the president says that his Supreme Court nominee is "plenty bright" and the most qualified person for the job.
    By Tim Grieve October 4, 2005

  • Courting disaster

    Legal scholar Cass Sunstein explains the dangers of "fundamentalist" judges on the Supreme Court, why conservatives should fear right-wing radicals as much as liberals, and what went wrong with Roe v. Wade.
    By J.J. Helland September 12, 2005

  • It's the math: Roberts will be confirmed

    Unless senators discover a skeleton in his closet, the nomination fight is over before it even begins.
    By Tim Grieve July 21, 2005

  • The woman who could detonate the "nuclear option"

    The looming filibuster showdown is likely to be triggered by Priscilla Owen, who was accused of judicial activism by an unlikely foe -- Alberto Gonzales.
    By Eric Boehlert May 3, 2005

  • The next war: Bush and the Supreme Court

    With William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor considering retirement, activists on all sides are preparing for a firefight over Bush's next high-court nominee.
    By Tim Grieve June 27, 2003

  • Onward, Christian soldiers

    With its allies now controlling Congress and the White House, the religious right launches a crusade to cleanse America of sin. The first battlefield: Women's bodies.
    By Louise Witt January 3, 2003

  • A nauseating ruling

    Clarence Thomas says marijuana has no medical use. Maybe he'd like to try my cancer
    By Dan Shapiro May 15, 2001

  • Can John Ashcroft be stopped?

    If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends.
    By Bruce Shapiro January 16, 2001

  • Letting it all leak out

    Betsey Johnson's left breast disappears under veil of secrecy, NP leaks the story. Plus: Real-life Erin Brockovich extorted by scumbag exes; and Amy Irving ponders significance of oyster predilection
    By Amy Reiter May 1, 2000

  • Lighten up, Sandy baby

    The recent Supreme Court decision on nude dancing had Justice O'Connor ruling on G-strings and pasties.
    By Virginia Vitzthum April 4, 2000

  • I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice

    Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
    By Jock O'Connell November 18, 1999

  • Who harassed whom?

    The former chief of staff to Sen. Max Baucus claims he sexually harassed her, then fired her, but the senator tells an entirely different story -- that she was relentlessly abusing his staff.
    By Susan Crabtree September 18, 1999

  • The color of money

    Of course there are blacks on TV. You just have to pay to see them.
    By Joyce Millman August 23, 1999
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