Clarence Thomas: The Biggest Fraud on the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas’s life is often told as a simple story about a poor Black child who climbed his way to the top. The real story is harder. It is about a boy raised in the ruins of Jim Crow who was pulled into a political machine that knew exactly how to use him. It is about a man who turned against the protections that opened doors for him. And it is about how that man spent thirty years reshaping American law in ways that hurt the communities he came from.
Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a small Black community founded by formerly enslaved people. His family lived in a wooden…
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