Happy birthdays, Justices Thomas and Sotomayor

Clarence Thomas was born on this day (23 June) in 1948 in the segregated Deep South (Pin Point, Georgia), while Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born on 25 June 1954 in the Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents. Below is a lecture she gave at the University of Alabama in April of this year:

For his part, of the 116 judges who have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas (the only true originalist on the high court today; see here, for example) is the second longest-serving justice in our nation’s history. Below is a lecture he gave at the University of Texas (Austin) in April of this year:

As an aside, the comments section on one of the two YouTube videos above is shut down. Can you guess which one?

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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2 Responses to Happy birthdays, Justices Thomas and Sotomayor

  1. beardluminous490baa4315's avatar beardluminous490baa4315 says:

    Based on his extremely right wing voting record all non-white people including himself would still be slaves today

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