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Justice Thomas slams cancel culture, 'packing' Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he's worried efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices

The Independent UK

Why dissent by conservative justices in voting rights cases is alarming

Democrats won two major victories, but a dissenting opinion from three of the court’s conservative justices set off alarm bells

The Guardian - US

SCOTUS has a major Thomas dilemma

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas under pressure to recuse himself from cases relating to his wife and her work

Salon

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Robe & Gavel: Federal Judicial Vacancy Count released for March 1

Welcome to the March 7 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

Ballotpedia

Biden's past Supreme Court experience helped inform choice

President Joe Biden knows better than anyone the unexpected turns a Supreme Court nomination can take after it lands on Capitol Hill

The Independent UK

Jackie Calmes: Has Clarence Thomas' wife crossed a line? Yes, and then some

Some things don't improve over time.

Los Angeles Times

Book: Judge Jackson Said She "Do[esn't] Understand" Justice Thomas

ABCNews unearths an interesting interview with Ketanji Brown Jackson about Justice Clarence Thomas

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Ginni Thomas key to Trump's fraud claims

Ginni Thomas comes under close scrutiny as critics fear that she is compromising the politics of the Supreme Court

Salon

WaPo Removes Claim That Justice Thomas's "Rulings Often Resemble the Thinking of White Conservatives."

"A previous version of this story imprecisely referred to Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinions as often reflecting the thinking of White conservatives, rather than conservatives broadly. That reference has been removed."

Reason

Editorial: Partisanship on the Supreme Court is damaging. A code of conduct could help

Supreme Court justices adamantly declare they are above the grubby machinations of partisan politics. But that narrative is contradicted by events like last week’s speech by Justice Neil Gorsuch to a closed-door gathering of the conservative Federalist Society that also included such Republican luminaries as former Vice President Mike Pence…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Black lawmakers blast plans for monument to Justice Thomas

Georgia’s Republican-controlled Senate has voted to erect a monument to U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Clarence Thomas

The Independent UK

Georgia Senate approves putting Clarence Thomas statue on Capitol grounds

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate on Monday approved on a party-line vote a measure to place a monument honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the Capitol grounds.

Tribune News Service

Thomas Calls for Reconsidering New York Times v. Sullivan

Well, it's Judge Bradford Thomas of the Florida Court of Appeal, but still an interesting synthesis of recent criticisms, with some extra analysis added.

Reason

The Supreme Court Fight We Should Be Having

There are more productive things to argue about than identify politics.

Reason

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Commentary: Reagan believed in Supreme Court diversity too

On July 1, 1991, I was a junior staffer at the Republican National Committee. At midday, a number of us gathered in an office staring at a small TV as the first President George Bush walked out of the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, to address reporters. He was accompanied…

Los Angeles Times

Ketanji Jackson is a favorite for Biden's historic Supreme Court pick

WASHINGTON — U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the front-runner for a historic Supreme Court nomination, graduated with high honors from Harvard College, was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a law clerk for Justice Stephen G. Breyer.

The Guardian - US

Who has more influence on supreme court: Clarence Thomas or his activist wife?

Justice’s wife, Ginni Thomas, sits on the board of conservative group that backs lawsuit seeking to end affirmative action, raising concerns it could present potential conflict of interest

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Identity politics and the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, at the age of 83 and after three decades of demonstrating his brilliance and knowledge, is retiring. Past comments tell us what he wants as a replacement: someone of high legal skill to serve not as a politician seeking popularity or ideological objectives but as…

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Axios

The political leanings of the Supreme Court justices

The most conservative: Samuel Alito. The most liberal: Sonia Sotomayor.

The Independent UK

‘You can’t make that make sense’: Supreme Court expert rails against Justice Clarence Thomas for potential conflict of interest

‘The appearance here is that the reason he dissented is because his wife Ginni Thomas is all up in January 6’

Salon

Jan. 6 and Justice Clarence Thomas' wife

On Jan. 6, Ginni Thomas was supporting the Capitol riot violence as it unfolded on her social media

The Independent UK

Wife of Supreme Court justice who praised Capitol rioters wants Cheney and Kinzinger out of GOP for investigating it

Virginia ‘Ginny’ Thomas is a veteran conservative activist whose political activities have often concerned matters before the Supreme Court

Reason

David Lat on the Crystal Clanton Matter

As usual, Lat puts it very well in his "Original Jurisdiction" Substack newsletter (I've paid for a subscription, and highly recommend it): Last fall, [Chief Judge Pryor] was widely criticized for hiring an allegedly racist law clerk—specifically, Crystal Clanton, now a 3L at George Mason aka Scalia Law. According to…

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