Quote of the Day — Clarence Thomas
May 6, 2025
Government cannot make us equal. It can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. — Clarence Thomas
1948–present
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1948–present
Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving and most influential originalist justice on the U.S. Supreme Court whose jurisprudence grounds constitutional interpretation in the document’s original public meaning, restoring limits on federal power. Born in 1948 in rural Georgia to a sharecropping family and raised by his grandfather, Thomas’s early years of poverty and segregation shaped his understanding of individual resilience and skepticism toward government solutions. After graduating from Yale Law School and practicing law, Thomas was appointed to the District of Columbia Circuit Court and then to the Supreme Court in 1991, where he has served for over three decades. Justice…
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Justice Clarence Thomas’s words on equality and limited government anchored the May 6, 2025 broadcast, setting the stage for Scott Powell’s examination of judicial overreach and the proper constitutional role of the three branches of government.
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