Angry liberals targeted George Washington University and demanded that Justice Clarance Thomas be banned from speaking at the school. On Tuesday, the school took a stand and defended Justice Thomas, as they should.
The university noted that “many of the requests” from “some members of the university and external communities” cited Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the Supreme Court rightly overturned the landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Thomas justifiably criticized the idea of “substantive due process” and labeled it “legal fiction.”
“Because we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas and deliberation, and because debate is an essential part of our university’s academic and educational mission to train future leaders who are prepared to address the world’s most urgent problems, the university will neither terminate Justices Thomas’s employment nor cancel his class in response to his legal opinions,” stated the university in an email to members of the GWU community.
Justice Thomas has served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court since October 23, 1991. He attended Conception Seminary and received an AB, cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a JD from Yale Law School in 1974.
He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an assistant attorney general of Missouri from 1974–1977, an attorney with the Monsanto Company from 1977–1979, and legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979–1981.
From 1981–1982, he served as assistant secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982–1990. He became a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990.
Thomas has fallen under attack after the Supreme Court opinion leak and now the left is unfairly targeting Thomas for his part in the overturning of Roe v Wade—Because of his skin color. Some have even labeled Thomas as a racist and a “black white supremacist“. Tell me how that makes sense.
I, for one, am proud that the University told libs to stuff it. Their warped view of reality and aim to cancel the only black man in the Supreme Court has been offensive, to put it mildly.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
