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Appointed by President George H.W. Bush.
Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia. He attended the College of the Holy Cross and Yale Law School.
Thomas was narrowly confirmed 52-48 — the closest Supreme Court confirmation vote in over a century.
Thomas is the Court's most committed originalist.
Argued for an even broader individual right to bear arms.
Called for reconsidering other substantive due process precedents.