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How the Supreme Court Got So Supreme

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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Clarence Thomas: A Black Nationalist Jurist

Stephen F. Smith is one of the very few black law clerks there have ever been on the Supreme Court. He got the job to clerk for Clarence Thomas in 1993, just two years after he was appointed. "There were clearly structural racist reasons why he didn't have a clerkship even now"

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