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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  

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“No good comes from being in the woods.”

On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a Supreme Court Justice; reported in Robert Barnes, " For 25 years, it has been Clarence Thomas v. Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/after-25-years-supporters-praise-clarence-thomas-but-controversy-is-always-near/2016/10/30/3fba40e4-9d24-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1", Washington Post (October 30, 2016).
2010s

“To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.”

As quoted in "The New Republic Calls Out Harry Reid on Clarence Thomas" http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2004/12/08/the-new-republic-calls-out-harry-reid-on-clarence-thomas/ (December 2004), DinoCrat.
1990s

“Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.”

Dissenting Kelo v. New London http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=04-108.
2000s, Kelo v. New London (2005)

“[I claim] my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”

Reported in Ellis Cose, " Justice: Still Keeping Score http://web.archive.org/web/20070605123712/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18248548/site/newsweek/page/2/", Newsweek (April 30, 2007).
1990s

“Those incentives have made the legacy of this Courts public purpose test an unhappy one. In the 1950s, no doubt emboldened in part by the expansive understanding of public use this Court adopted in Berman, cities rushed to draw plans for downtown development. Of all the families displaced by urban renewal from 1949 through 1963, 63 percent of those whose race was known were nonwhite, and of these families, 56 percent of nonwhites and 38 percent of whites had incomes low enough to qualify for public housing, which, however, was seldom available to them. Public works projects in the 1950s and 1960s destroyed predominantly minority communities in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1981, urban planners in Detroit, Michigan, uprooted the largely lower-income and elderly Poletown neighborhood for the benefit of the General Motors Corporation. Urban renewal projects have long been associated with the displacement of blacks; [i]n cities across the country, urban renewal came to be known as Negro removal. Over 97 percent of the individuals forcibly removed from their homes by the slum-clearance project upheld by this Court in Berman were black. Regrettably, the predictable consequence of the Court’s decision will be to exacerbate these effects.”

Dissenting Kelo v. New London http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=04-108.
2000s, Kelo v. New London (2005)