How many years have we watched the universities bow down to cancel culture and the leftist extremists? I have friends now who plan to sink their children’s college fund into a start-up business for them instead just to avoid shoving their adult children into deep liberal waters. Well, they might think again because the times are a-changing!
Angry liberals swarmed George Washington University the moment the school announced that Justice Clarance Thomas was a scheduled speaker. Justice Thomas has become a target for the radical and racist left ever since the Supreme Court handed abortion rights back down to the states.
Rather than bend, though, GWU stuck by Thomas and essentially told liberals to zip it. Tell me that’s not a change, right?
The university noted that “many of the requests” from “some members of the university and external communities” cited Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the Supreme Court rightly overturned the landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Thomas justifiably criticized the idea of “substantive due process” and labeled it “legal fiction.”
“Because we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas and deliberation, and because debate is an essential part of our university’s academic and educational mission to train future leaders who are prepared to address the world’s most urgent problems, the university will neither terminate Justices Thomas’s employment nor cancel his class in response to his legal opinions,” stated the university in an email to members of the GWU community.
Justice Thomas has served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court since October 23, 1991. He attended Conception Seminary and received an AB, cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a JD from Yale Law School in 1974.
He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an assistant attorney general of Missouri from 1974–1977, an attorney with the Monsanto Company from 1977–1979, and legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979–1981.
From 1981–1982, he served as assistant secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982–1990. He became a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990.