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Кларенс Томас — американский юрист, судья Верховного суда США с 1991 года. Является вторым афроамериканцем в Верховном суде. Считается самым консервативным судьей Верховного суда США за последние десятилетия.

Поскольку его отец рано бросил семью, был воспитан матерью и дедом. В молодости участвовал в протестах чернокожих студентов против расовой дискриминации. Окончил Колледж Святого Креста в Вустере и школу права при Йельском университете.

С 1974 по 1977 год работал в офисе Генерального прокурора штата Миссури, с 1979 по 1981 год был помощником сенатора Джона Денфорта. В 1981 году стал помощником министра образования США по правам человека, а в 1982 году был назначен президентом председателем Комиссии по вопросам равенства в сфере занятости.

В 1990 году президент Джордж Буш назначил его судьёй Апелляционного суда округа Колумбия. Известен жёсткими взглядами на целый ряд вопросов, в том числе поддерживает применение смертной казни к умственно отсталым, совершившим тяжкие преступления. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Июнь 1948
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“Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”

As quoted in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04scotus.html?hp&_r=0 (February 2010).
2010s

“A white person is free to think whatever they want to think, but a black person has to think a certain way. Why do you think I get in so much controversy? People have a model of what they think a black person should think.”

Justice Thomas to Diane Brady, 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-15/clarence-thomas-brilliantly-breaks-his-silent-streak
2000s

“As used in the Due Process Clauses, 'liberty' most likely refers to 'the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct; without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law'. That definition is drawn from the historical roots of the Clauses and is consistent with our Constitution’s text and structure. Both of the Constitution’s Due Process Clauses reach back to Magna Carta. Chapter 39 of the original Magna Carta provided ', No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land'. Although the 1215 version of Magna Carta was in effect for only a few weeks, this provision was later reissued in 1225 with modest changes to its wording as follows: 'No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”

In his influential commentary on the provision many years later, Sir Edward Coke interpreted the words 'by the law of the land' to mean the same thing as 'by due proces of the common law'.
Obergefell v. Hodges http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf (26 June 2015).
2010s

“I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge.”

A Silent Justice Speaks Out http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3664944&page=1.
1990s