Anita Hill's Testimony Part 16 - Clarence Thomas 2nd Hearing Part 25 (1991)

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Upon his appointment, Thomas was generally perceived as joining the conservative wing of the Court, voting most frequently with Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Scalia. Though most Justices, including Marshall, whom he was replacing, immediately welcomed Thomas, law clerks of some liberal justices viewed him with contempt, questioning his qualifications and intellectual heft. Legal reporter Jan Crawford Greenburg says that pundits' portrayal of Thomas as Antonin Scalia's understudy was grossly inaccurate - she says that from early on, it was more often Scalia changing his mind to agree with Thomas, rather than the other way around. On the other hand, Greenburg suggests that the forcefulness of Thomas's views pushed Justices Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Anthony Kennedy away.

Thomas has rarely given media interviews during his time on the Court. He said in 2007: "One of the reasons I don't do media interviews is, in the past, the media often has its own script." In 2007, Justice Thomas received a $1.5 million advance for writing his memoir, My Grandfather's Son; it became a bestseller.

According to Thomas biographer Scott Douglas Gerber, attacks against Justice Thomas from critics such as Jeffrey Toobin have been unusually vitriolic, which Gerber attributes in part to liberals disappointment that Thomas has departed so much from the jurisprudence of the fellow African-American whom he succeeded, namely Thurgood Marshall. Additional possible causes for the unusually harsh disparagement of Thomas may be the inherently explosive nature of sexual misconduct accusations, the suspicion among some people that Thomas was less than forthcoming during his confirmation hearings, and the belief in some circles that Thomas has benefited from affirmative action programs like ones he has criticized as a judge.

As of 2004, Thomas was second only to Sandra Day O'Connor as the Supreme Court Justice whom most people admire or with whom they agree most. Six years later, in 2010, Thomas had a 48% favorable, 36% unfavorable rating.

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[wawawis]

@greenleaf1343 He passed away from a heart attack on 29 March, 2005.

[greenleaf1343]

Hef was the man. Wondering what happened to him.

[Aritul]

I like Heflin's accent.  I wonder if it still exists these days.