Clarence Thomas is one of the least likely people you’d expect to teach civil rights.
For decades, he has used his Supreme Court weight to oppose affirmative action, challenge federal voting rights protections and reject certain legal resolutions designed to address racial discrimination.
Yet the University of Texas School of Civic Leadership has tapped the U.S. Supreme Court justice to help teach a course on civil rights and the meaning of equality next spring. The university’s recent announcement raises the obvious question: Just what civil rights story will the students be getting?
Thomas will teach a seminar called “Equality and the New Birth of Freedom.” It will focus on the work of civil rights activists including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He will be on campus for two hours every morning for one week in February.
I have another question, is being on SCOTUS a part time job?
It’s more like a hobby it seems.
A lucrative side-hustle.
Always has been
I get it, but it sounds like the “teaching” gig is more of a junket
I’d like like to get an all-expense-paid trip somewhere warm and only have to work 2 hours a day…
sure… but Texas? no thanks
Austin is awesome
Yeah, it is just part of the “more free money and stuff for the wealthy”-program.
It is amazing how much money and free stuff the wealthy gets thrown at them just for being wealthy.
Aren’t they always denying cases because they don’t have time ?
The caseload alone justifies expanding the court.