Clarence+Thomas

= Clarence Thomas=  Date of Birth: June 23,1948 Current Age: 63 Date of Appointment: October 1 9,1991        Appointed by: George H.W. Bush
 * 1) Name: Clarence Thomas

 **Personal History ** Early life: Born in Pin Point,Ga. Grew up very poor and when he was two his father left the family.He was raised Roman Catholic and was the first-ever black student to attend St. John Vianney's Minor Seminary. He was the first person in his family to attend college. Education: He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Legal/Political Career prior to serving on the US Supreme Court: He was an assistant Attorney General of Missouri. In 1979 he began work as a legislative Assistant. Then in 1981 he joined the Reagan administation. Friends/Family/Mentors/Experiences that could have shaped your justice's views: He says being the only african american at his college he went through alot of racism and that changed his views

 **US Supreme Court Career **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> Voting Record: Voted with Justice Antonin Scalia 91% of the time Decisions: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">"In the cases regarding the fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizurs he often favors the police." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">His opinion for the court in //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">Board of education vs Earls  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">upheld drug testing for students involved in extracurricular activities, and wrote again for the court in  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|Samson v. California]  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">, permitting random searches on  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|parolees]  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">. He dissented in the case //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|Georgia v. Randolph]  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">, which prohibited warrantless searches that one resident approves and the other opposes, arguing that the case was controlled by the court's decision in  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|Coolidge v. New Hampshire]  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">If it is a free speech case he is more likely to overturn the case because he believes public school students should have limited freedom of speech." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">He has voted in favor of First admendment claims in cases involving a wide variety of issues, including  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|pornography]  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">,  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">[|campaign contributions]  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">, political leafletting, religious speech, and commercial speech". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">In a prisoner's rights case he cast the case as a states rights matter. Judicial Philosophy/Ideology: He believes that who ever holds the higher power in the states has the right to a better trial. " <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">In 1992's  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">Doggett v. United States  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">, Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion for himself and William Rehquist to uphold the conviction of a man who was indicted on a drug charge, but then not arrested for almost nine years. Thomas wrote that dismissing the conviction "invites the Nation's [sic] judges to indulge in ad hoc and result-driven second guessing of the government's investigatory efforts. Our Constitution neither contemplates nor tolerates such a role." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#Voting_trends <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">http://www.oyez.org/justices/clarence_thomas/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(244, 225, 225);"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;"> List the sites that you have used in your research. Put the information you gather into your own words. If you need to quote something directly, make sure to put it in quotes. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; background-color: rgb(0, 146, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">