Justice Thomas

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Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court on October 23, 1991, replacing Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the longest-serving current Justice by a wide margin, and he is the only current Justice who took his seat before 2000. Thomas was born in Georgia on June 23, 1948. He became the first person in his family to go to college when he enrolled in Conception Seminary College in Missouri. Thomas transferred to the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, where he majored in English literature. He graduated cum laude from Holy Cross in 1971 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1974.

Over the next three years, Thomas served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri. He then briefly worked for the Monsanto chemical company before moving to Washington, D.C. and taking a job for the Senate Commerce Committee. In 1981, Thomas became the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, but he would stay there for only a year. He then spent eight years as the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In late 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate in March 1990. Bush considered nominating Thomas to a Supreme Court vacancy just a few months later when Justice William Brennan retired, but Bush eventually chose David Souter instead. However, Thomas would get his chance just a year later. Bush nominated him on July 8, 1991 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Thomas went through his confirmation hearings in September 1991. The Senate Judiciary Committee did not send his nomination to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation, instead voting 13-1 to send his nomination without a recommendation. Before the Senate could vote on whether to confirm Thomas, though, allegations of sexual harassment surfaced in the media, This caused the Senate Judiciary Committee to reopen the confirmation hearings, which was the first time that this happened to a Supreme Court nominee since 1925. However, the Senate ultimately decided to confirm Thomas by a 52-48 vote on October 15. He took the constitutional and judicial oaths of office about a week later.

SOURCE: SUPREME.JUSTIA.COM

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  12. https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2113689277779575273

    “NEW: Kaylub Giamanco, the HERO father who TOOK OUT the Bend, Oregon elementary school shooter last week, tells the story for the first time

    “I started hearing children PLEADING for their lives. And then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster. And I told myself, this is probably the last thing that I’m ever going to do.”

    “I have to go in. People are going to die.”

    “I crawled through the bottom window that was shot out and continued onto the rug inside where there’s a little breezeway with stairs.”

    “And then the special needs classroom was to my left. At that point, I was on the ground on my hands and knees. I re-racked my weapon to make sure that a live round came so that I knew that I was ready to go.”

    “And then I peeked through the window. And at this point I found my opportunity. And I’d seen a teacher on the left struggling with the gunman on the right with the rifle.”

    “And I knew that they were on both sides of me, and I knew that he did not know that I was there. And so at that point I swung the door out and open and I stepped in and I fired.”

    This man deserves the Presidential Medal of FREEDOM!”

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