Authors: Clarence Thomas

1989–Present

Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

Source: 594 U. S. (2021), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-255. JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court. A public high school student used, and transmitted to her Snapchat friends, vulgar language and gestures

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Supreme Court
1989–Present

Grutter v. Bollinger

Source: 539 U.S. 306 (2003); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZS.html. Unless otherwise noted, all references are from the opinions of Justices O’Connor and Thomas. JUSTICE O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court.

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Race and Civil Rights
1989–Present

Missouri v. Jenkins

Source: 515 U.S. 70 (1995), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1823.ZC1.html. It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. Instead

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1989–Present

Grutter v. Bollinger

Source: 539 U.S. 306 (2003); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZS.html. JUSTICE O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to decide whether the use of race as a factor

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Race and Civil Rights
1989–Present

Speech to the National Bar Association

Source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?109490-1/supreme-court-justice-speech. Used in accordance with C-SPAN’s terms and conditions of use. . . .As has become the custom, a wearisome one I admit, this invitation has not been without

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1989–Present

Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association

Source: 564 U.S. 786, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZS.html. JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video games comports with the First Amendment.

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1989–Present

Morse v. Frederick

Source: 551 U.S. 393, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-278.ZS.html. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . Our cases make clear that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to

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1989–Present

Virginia v. Black

Source: 538 U.S. 343, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-1107.ZS.html. JUSTICE O’CONNOR announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and III, and an

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1989–Present

Van Orden v. Perry

Source: 543 U.S. 677 (2005), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1500.ZO.html. We omit the opinion of the Court by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and provide instead the concurring opinions of Justices Clarence Thomas and

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