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Clarence Thomas was raised by Myers Anderson, his ________________.
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3rd cousin
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Uncle
Stepfather
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What type of job did Myers Anderson do?
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He stocked shelves at the supermarket
He was a commercial fisherman
He drove a fuel oil delivery truck
He waited tables in a restaurant
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Clarence Thomas was raised by Myers Anderson, his ________________.
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What type of job did Myers Anderson do?
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Where did Clarence Thomas grow up?
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Clarence Thomas’s 2nd (and current) wife’s name is___________________.
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Why did Clarence Thomas leave his first childhood home?
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What word did Clarence Thomas use to describe his life in his second home in Savannah, Georgia?
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What would Myers Anderson make Clarence Thomas and his brothers do during the summer?
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One thing that Clarence Thomas appreciated about Catholic school growing up was:
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What did Myers Anderson say to Clarence Thomas when Clarence informed him that he wanted to go to a Seminary to study to be a priest?
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What caused Clarence Thomas to leave the Catholic seminary?
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When at Holy Cross College for his undergraduate degree, Clarence Thomas became involved with…
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During his time at Yale Law School, Clarence Thomas began to strongly disagree with what political policy?
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Clarence Thomas’s first political job as an attorney was:
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The first Republican candidate for office that Clarence Thomas voted for was:
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What appointment in the Regan Administration did Thomas take?
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What president nominated Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court?
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All of the following groups opposed Clarence Thomas nomination to the Supreme Court except:
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden spent much of his time in the confirmation hearing questioning Judge Thomas about:
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Clarence Thomas believes the main issue involving his contentious confirmation hearing was really:
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Anita Hill alleged that Clarence Thomas:
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Clarence Thomas thought that:
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In 1991 when the confirmation hearing happened, polls at that time said:
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When Clarence Thomas was informed that he had been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court what was his reaction?
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One unusual aspect of Justice Thomas’s tenure on the Supreme Court is that he:
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Justice Antonin Scalia, in many ways the most famous advocate of the Originalist method of interpreting the constitution called Clarence Thomas a _______________ originalist.
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What is Clarence Thomas’s favorite hobby?
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Extra credit: Clarence Thomas dissented in the Affirmative Action case in the Law School at the University of Michigan in 2003 in the case of ________________ vs. ____________________.
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Extra credit: What is unusual about the young lawyers that Clarence Thomas often chooses as law clerks?
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Where did Sonia Sotomayor grow up?
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When asked “What is it like to be a public persona?” Sonia Sotomayor described a scene where:
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When asked whether anything new was happening at the Supreme Court (this video is from November, 2018) she referred to the Supreme Court being disrupted by a new member. To whom was she referring?
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Sonia Sotomayor characterizes the Supreme Court as:
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Sonia Sotomayor said “_______________ is the thing we (the Supreme Court) have to guard most jealously.”
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What illness does Sonia Sotomayor have?
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Sonia Sotomayor credits her mother with which of these?
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For what reason did Sonia Sotomayor call herself “a marginal student” during her first four years in the United States?
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When Sonia Sotomayor first applied to Ivy League School Radcliffe she felt uncomfortable with _______________________, and when she applied at Yale she felt uncomfortable with________________.
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When asked why she didn’t decide to clerk for a Supreme Court or Appeals Court judge following Yale Law School, Sonia Sotomayor said:
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Justice Sotomayor struck some liberal notes in her address when she argued:
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What was unusual about the Bible that Justice Sotomayor took the oath of office upon?
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True or False: Sonia Sotomayor currently favors introducing cameras into the Supreme Court chamber to broadcast oral arguments on C-Span.
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If given the choice, Justice Sotomayor would prefer that the Supreme Court:
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At the end of the video, Justice Sotomayor was asked how long she intends to stay a Supreme Court judge. Which of these was her answer?
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Extra credit: What descriptive phrase did Sonia Sotomayor use to characterize the intellect of her colleagues?
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Extra credit: Which of these is NOT a job that Sonia Sotomayor held prior to serving as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court?
