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...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...Clarence Thomas, the conservative US Supreme Court justice, has disclosed that billionaire Harlan Crow paid for three trips to New York and Texas last year, after coming under fire for accepting gifts from...
...“For anyone who knows him at all, it is clear that no one influences Justice Clarence Thomas’s jurisprudence....
...Clarence Thomas, a conservative justice, added: “As the cancellation of $400bn in debt, in effect, this is a grant of $400bn and it runs into Congress’s appropriations authority.”...
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Additional reporting by James Politi...
...“Today, the US Senate stood up to Justice Clarence Thomas’ radical, regressive vision for America,” said Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate judiciary committee....
...James Ball is a tech-savvy writer who worked with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before it became a Moscow data dump....
...“What Clarence Thomas wants to do is radical, not conservative.”...
...The 1946 film starring James Stewart is a Christmas favourite and ENO will be having similar hopes for this canny choice of opera....
...Earlier this year, it emerged he had been funding lavish vacations for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas....
...the same time, Democrats are planning to take steps to try to enshrine other rights — such as same-sex marriage and access to contraception — into law, after a concurring opinion by conservative justice Clarence...
...Those worries were amplified after Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurrent opinion that the court should move on to consider previous rulings in those areas....
...The Politico report said Alito was joined by at least four other conservative justices in siding with Mississippi — Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch....
...This year, however, the King (a warm friend of British Jews) has provided accommodation at Clarence House for Chief Rabbi Mirvis so that he can walk to the Abbey on the Sabbath....
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...St Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss the economy and monetary policy during an event hosted by the Little Rock Regional Chamber....
...James Kynge asks in the season finale of our Tech Tonic podcast. Would a Sinn Féin win open door to a united Ireland?...
...To create the Kwong repertory – modern riffs on traditional Cantonese, incorporating native Australian ingredients – she works closely with Clarence Slockee, a Cudgenburra/Bundjalung man who runs the South...
...When he presided over the Senate judiciary committee’s 1991 hearings on Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court, he was criticised for the way he handled Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations...
...One of Mr Biden’s biggest regrets from that period — which he later apologised for — involved his role in presiding over the hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court....
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