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...THOMAS'S RECORD has received short shrift in the national debate over his nomination. Why? Lucky timing for the administration is part of it. The spot on the Court opened when a near-senile Thurgood Marshall retired in late July. Bush ignored precedent and quickly picked Thomas even though some insiders (namely Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, who couldn't bark too loudly because he was still licking his wounds over the travel flap) doubted Thomas's judicial proficiency...
...should be naive enough to believe that this is the first time politicking has determined a President's pick for the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, after all, took a seat vacated when President Lyndon B. Johnson named Ramsey Clark, a personal enemy, to be U.S. Attorney General so that his father, Thomas Clark, would retire from the Court...
...nation's oldest civil rights group's opposition to the second black ever nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court showed the depth of emotion generated by the selection of Clarence Thomas to replace retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall. In announcing the N.A.A.C.P.'s decision last week, chairman William Gibson praised Thomas' personal success in rising from rural poverty in Georgia to the federal Court of Appeals but criticized his "insensitivity to giving those who may not have any bootstraps the opportunity to pull themselves up as well." Translation: liberal activists view Thomas' skepticism toward affirmative action as a fatal flaw. Within...
What leaders in both camps fear most is that some white politicians will try to exploit their divisions by playing off the two groups against each other. Before George Bush selected black Appeals Court Judge Clarence Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall, the White House let it be known that a Hispanic jurist, Emilio Garza, was also being considered. Some Latinos believe that the information was leaked mainly to lure Hispanics to the Republican banner...
...days after George Bush interrupted his Kennebunkport vacation to announce his replacement for Justice Thurgood Marshall, the tiniest details of Clarence Thomas' background began to tumble out. They ranged from the lack of indoor plumbing in the house where he was born to the cigars he smokes to the bitter divorce from his first wife...