Clarence Thomas
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type: Politician
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label: クラレンス・トーマス @ja
label: كلارنس توماس @ar
label: 克拉倫斯·托馬斯 @zh
label: Кларенс Томас @uk
label: Томас, Кларенс @ru
label: 클래런스 토머스 @ko
term period: Clarence Thomas Tenure 4
term period: Clarence Thomas Tenure 2
term period: Clarence Thomas Tenure 3
term period: Clarence Thomas Tenure 1
spouse: Ginni Thomas
predecessor: Thurgood Marshall
predecessor: Cynthia Brown
predecessor: Robert Bork
predecessor: Eleanor Holmes Norton
signature: Clarence Thomas' signature.svg
signature alt: Cursive signature in ink
spouse: Kathy Ambush
successor: Evan Kemp
successor: Judith W. Rogers
successor: Harry Singleton
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width: 30.0
education: Yale University
education: College of the Holy Cross
module: --06-22
office: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
office: Office for Civil Rights
office: Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
office: Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
term end: 1991-10-23
term end: 1982-05-06
term end: 1990-03-08
term start: 1990-03-12
term start: 1981-06-26
term start: 1991-10-23
term start: 1982-05-06
nominator: George H. W. Bush
birth place: Pin Point, Georgia
birth place: United States Reports
birth date: 1948-06-23
birth place: Pin Point, Georgia, U.S.
source: Thomas, testifying as part of his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee
float: right
quote: And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, [this proceeding] is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks that in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to the old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the United States Senate rather than hung from a tree.
quote: Nothing in the Constitution deprives the people of each State of the power to prescribe eligibility requirements for the candidates who seek to represent them in Congress. The Constitution is simply silent on this question. And where the Constitution is silent, it raises no bar to action by the States or the people. — Thomas, dissenting in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
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description: Amerika amanyɔni @tw
description: US-amerikanischer Jurist @de
description: Soudce Nejvyššího soudu Spojených států @cs
description: giudice statunitense @it
description: Amerikansk højesteretsdommer @da
description: A.B.D.'li yargıç @tr
description: Amerika nira ŋun baŋsim ziligi alikaale tali puuni ka o nyɛ doo @dag
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description: jurista estadounidense @es
description: juge à la Cour suprême des États-Unis depuis 1991 @fr
description: amerikansk jurist @sv
description: bandarískur hæstaréttardómari @is
description: שופט בית המשפט העליון של ארה\ב @iw
description: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991
description: Ameerika Ühendriikide jurist, ülemkohtunik @et
description: 美國最高法院大法官 @zh
description: Yhdysvaltain korkeimman oikeuden tuomari @fi