DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. And other conservatives said he was with the president. Clarence didn't exactly have a plethora of social skills and was mocked and ridiculed. You know, it's hard to witness the hardship that he suffered as a child and not have some sympathy for him. But it was a hard life in other ways. His latest work is a PBS Frontline documentary about the lives and influences on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, a conservative political activist. CreditIllustration by Lincoln Agnew; Photographs by Pete Marovich for The New York Times; John Taggart for The New York Times; WENN Rights Ltd., via Alamy Stock Photo; Richard Drew, via Associated Press; Chip Somodevilla, via Getty; Mike Segar, via Reuters; Neil P. Mockford, via Getty. The place of principles in bioethics. And you talked to so many people. c. Committee of managers or executives. And he is rewarded by the Reagan administration for his willingness to step up and defend Reagan. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. Thomas decided to wait until tomorrow to respond to the e-mail. KIRK: He was trying to make it more palatable and have kind of less teeth. He asks the women, the way they tell it, you know, what was your bra size? @jimrutenberg, Michael S. Schmidt is a Washington correspondent covering national security and federal investigations. Let me reintroduce you. So in 1991, Thurgood Marshall, the only Black member of the Supreme Court, retires and George Herbert Walker Bush picks Clarence Thomas to take his place as an associate justice. DAVIES: Michael Kirk is an award-winning filmmaker. July 8, 2021 What are the issues confronting Thomas in this case? KIRK: Her father was a tough guy, also carried a lot of the racism about the internal racism inside the Black world of Savannah and Pin Point, ran a fuel oil business, I think ice and coal kind of business, where in the summer, you deliver ice, and in the winter, you deliver fuel oil in a kind of old truck. Solved Please read the Case study AMEX, Hungary in Chapter - Chegg Jefferson's presidency and the turn of the nineteenth century What are the issues confronting Thomas in this case? And he's doing that with a sort of mixture of I'm so happy I finally found a place where I can thrive, I'm so happy I can now get even with the forces in the society that have made me feel bad all of my life, and especially the indignities that grew out of the Anita Hill testimony and my confirmation hearings. 392 episodes. Did you talk to folks or did you get insights from Thomas' book about whether he changed his thinking about the United States and race relations and, you know, the big issues that had radicalized him? He was in some form of shell shock during his years at Yale Law School. ), But Judge Davis had determined that Fox had set itself apart by failing to conduct good-faith, disinterested reporting in the segments at issue in the suit. And it's a kind of dialect called Geechee - Gullah Geechee. Mr. Dinh hired Dan Webb, a former U.S. attorney, for the role of lead litigator, succeeding Mr. Babcock. Foxs lawyers believed it would not come out at trial, because it was not relevant to the legal arguments at hand. The suit posed a threat to the companys finances and reputation. His feelings and his, I think, probably - I hate to get in his grandfather's head. When pretrial rulings went against the company, Fox did not pursue a settlement in any real way. They saw the world. Assignment: Case 16.1 AMEX, Hungary continue: and only one station was being retrofitted. And the seminarian said, I hope the SOB dies. (SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "SELF-PORTRAIT IN THREE COLORS"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. 1. Case: Thomas Gerrand & Sons Ltd. (1967) Fact of the case: The On tomorrow's show, we'll talk with Kwame Alexander about his new memoir, "Why Fathers Cry At Night." You know, you make decisions. Mr. Webb was known for representing a beef manufacturer that sued ABC News over reports about a product sometimes referred to as pink slime. The case was settled in 2017 for more than $170 million. The board, however, was concerned that Dominion was prepared to use the message to further undermine the company with the jury. To DAVIES: And just for listeners here, this is - the first part of the hearing went smoothly enough. This is Clarence Thomas' moment. There was a strong belief that the appeal could very well be as important, or more important, than the trial itself, Mr. Webb said at the post-mortem discussion of the case with Mr. Clare. (He made a similar argument in March in The Wall Street Journal. And while those kind of things were breaking out every night, Clarence leaves Cambridge at 4 in the morning, gets back to campus and has a kind of epiphany where he says to himself - at least in his book, this is what he reports - he says to himself, why was I doing that? The district court ultimately granted summary judgment to the IRS on all issues. The Clarence Thomas scandal echoes Supreme Court corruption rulings By the time the board learned of the message, the Murdochs had already determined that a trial loss could be far more damaging than they were initially told to expect. The probable reason for Alitos decision is not hard to find in his latest financial disclosure report: He owns between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock in Phillips 66, one of the companies that appealed. I want to do something. sociology What is the difference between legalism and Confucianism? Collaborate/Problem Solve. And for Clarence - that was the high school student Clarence - that was the final straw. Those benefits included trips on private jets and a luxury yacht, the purchase of and renovations to the home Clarence Thomas' mother lives in and private school tuition for a grandnephew of Clarence Thomas. He was not happy about the implications of affirmative action, and it was among the first times that he would, of course, throughout his life be a recipient, a beneficiary of what became known as affirmative action. And his grandfather and he never really mended that breach after that. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Keith Watts keeps a framed copy of his decade-old rejection . 1. DAVIES: And so living in this dormitory with a bunch of white boys, that's kind of an unusual arrangement for kids back in the '50s. The issues facing Thomas are; Michael Thomas shouted, "Sasha, Tor-Tor, we've got to go! @NYTMike, Jeremy W. Peters covers media and its intersection with politics, law and culture. During Mr. Carlsons deposition last year, Dominions lawyers asked about his use of a crude word to describe women including a ranking Fox executive. Text messages that came to light in the Dominion case included assertions by the Fox host Tucker Carlson that voter fraud could not have made a material difference in the election. Solved AMEX, Hungary Michael Thomas shouted, "Sasha, | Chegg.com It went horribly awry. In 1974, Kenneth W. Thomas and Ralph H. Kilmann introduced a questionnaire, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, designed to measure people's conflict styles. And he and Limbaugh became inseparable, kind of really, really close friends during that time. What are the issues confronting Thomas in this case? What are the issues confronting Thomas in this case? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the most senior member of the Conservative supermajority that now dominates the court, giving him a level of influence he'd never seen in his 32 years as an associate justice. It was only in February, with the overwhelming negative public reaction to those disclosures, that Mr. Murdoch and his son with whom he runs the company, Lachlan Murdoch, began seriously considering settling. In this case, the court must decide if Mental Health Retardation Hospital (MHRH) unlawfully discriminated against Betty Thomas when they refused to hire her due to her obesity. And for all of that, Fox still faces a lawsuit seeking even more in damages, $2.7 billion, filed by another subject of the stolen-election theory, the voting software company Smartmatic, which can now build on the evidence produced in the Dominion case to press its own considerable claims. Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump. The presumption is that they are different than that. You're surrounded by - I mean, one of his - his married student housing roommate was John Bolton. Accuracy and availability may vary. He applies himself and does very, very well and manages to graduate from Holy Cross - the first person in his family to do so. And then you play a clip from an old friend of Clarence Thomas, Glenn Loury, who is a respected professor of economics at Brown, who had his own history with a lot of these issues. And that was the assassination, the murder of Martin Luther King, when he heard a white seminarian say King had not been murdered - had not died yet. a. He also enters a whole new set of associations, particularly with wealthy white conservatives. Right to Confront Adverse Witnesses: Current Doctrine Of course, the case would have been difficult for any lawyer. He was there but not really there, thinking about it, defending it but not really. Let me reintroduce you. But controversy has swirled around Thomas and his wife, Ginni, in recent weeks, with revelations by the investigative news site ProPublica that a conservative Texas billionaire has lavished Thomas with expensive vacations and other financial benefits for many years, benefits that were never reported on Thomas' financial disclosure forms.