President George Bush named Clarence Thomas (born 1948) to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Senate confirmation was gained only after intense public controversy over charges of "sexual harassment" brou...
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Clarence Thomas was sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in November of 1991, following perhaps the greatest furor over such an appointment in modern history. A conservative jurist with exp...
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Some Supreme Court cases, since Samuel Alito joined the court last year, showing a clear division between conservative and liberal justices._Free speech: Scales back protections for government work...
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In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhauser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhauser should pay. The jury aw...
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The Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three Texas killers Wednesday because of problems with instructions given jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.In the case of La...
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Two outsized personalities clashed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and one of them, Justice Antonin Scalia, was briefly silenced by a barbed comment that left other justices laughing.Longtime Har...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for companies to challenge patents, ruling in favor of MedImmune Inc., a biotech firm that makes a childhood respiratory drug.The 8-1 decision in the dis...
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Florida death row prisoner lost an opportunity to challenge his conviction in the federal court system because he missed a one-year filing deadline.In a 5-4 d...
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Climate change is heating the earth and also warming relations between Democrat John Kerry and Republican Newt Gingrich.Kerry, a past presidential candidate, debated Gingrich, a potential one, in a...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Friday issued a plea for religious tolerance, and said the nation must guard against returning to days when a notion prevailed that people of some faith...
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Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Cases showing court's ideological divide
