Law Practice
Jul. 27, 2007
Thomas Charts a Jurisprudence All His Own
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has thrown several curve balls since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito joined the bench. During the hoopla over the new-look Supreme Court, Thomas has quietly continued to chart a provocative and often-controversial path all his own.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
That passage, from a landmark 1969 decision which held that students had a First Amendment right to wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War, is one of the...
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