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In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position, and he’s said he isn’t going away anytime soon. With President Donald Trump’s nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas quashes retirement rumors: ‘I enjoy being here’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg answers a law student's question as she participates in a &quot;fireside chat&quot; in the Bruce M. Selya Appellate Courtroom at the Roger William University Law School in Bristol, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg knocks Clarence Thomas in dissent: A woman seeking abortion is not a ‘mother’

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

This Oct. 10, 2017, photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington at sunset. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court upholds Indiana abortion law on fetal remains

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution’ by Myron Magnet

By Daniel B. Moskowitz

In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position, and he’s said he isn’t going away anytime soon. With President Donald Trump’s nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court moment may finally have arrived

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011, file photo Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughs while talking with other guests at The Federalist Society's 2011 Annual Dinner in Washington. Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position, and he’s said he isn’t going away anytime soon. With President Donald Trump’s nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Justice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

In this Feb. 15, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) **FILE**

Justice Clarence Thomas: ‘I’m not retiring’ from Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, whose murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

Supreme Court troubled by jury selection bias in Mississippi

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 15, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) **FILE**

Justice Thomas talks at court arguments, 1st time in 3 years

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This April 18, 2018 photo shows Bill Cosby arriving for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown. Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania. The move comes after the 81-year-old Cosby spent about four months in special housing as he acclimated to the SCI-Phoenix in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Justice Thomas calls for re-examining landmark libel case

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2004 file photo. George P. Bush, left, stands hands with his grandfather, former President George H.W. Bush in New York prior to their remarks at a reception hosted by the Hispanic Alliance for Progress Institute in conjunction with the Republican National Convention. George H.W. Bush's political career spanned a generation and straddled the America before and after Jim Crow but also was a key figure in the GOP as reaching out to Latino voters. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

George H.W. Bush’s legacy on racial issues is complicated

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK - Associated Press

Illustration on aspects of the newest 'Year of the Woman' by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Another ‘Year of the Woman’

By David Keene - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Thomas stresses need for neutrality

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1991 file photo University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hill testified that she was &quot;embarrassed and humiliated&quot; by unwanted, sexually explicit comments made by Thomas when she worked for him a decade ago. The Thomas-Hill hearings riveted Americans, and the same is expected for the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Lessons from Thomas-Hill hearings likely to guide senators

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, right, answers questions from reporters about allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, as he arrives for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Deja vu: What these senators said then and what they say now

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, right, answers questions from reporters about allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, as he arrives for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

For 3 senators, Kavanaugh-Ford hearings may cause deja vu

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1991 file photo University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hill testified that she was &quot;embarrassed and humiliated&quot; by unwanted, sexually explicit comments made by Thomas when she worked for him a decade ago. The Thomas-Hill hearings riveted Americans, and the same is expected for the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Senate hearing shaped by lessons learned from Thomas process

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1991 file photo University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hill testified that she was &quot;embarrassed and humiliated&quot; by unwanted, sexually explicit comments made by Thomas when she worked for him a decade ago. The Thomas-Hill hearings riveted Americans, and the same is expected for the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

AP Was There: The Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings

Associated Press

Anita Hill applauds at the Anita Hill and Fatima Goss Graves Discussion on Harassment at United Talent Agency on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Anita Hill says Christine Blasey Ford hearing ‘cannot be fair,’ demands ‘real investigation’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress in Washington. When Thomas arrived at the Supreme Court in the fall of 1991 after a bruising confirmation hearing in which his former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, fellow justice Byron White said something that stuck with him. “It doesn’t matter how you got here. All that matters now is what you do here,” Thomas recounted in his 2007 memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.”(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Path forward for Kavanaugh could be like Clarence Thomas’

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press