Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court since 1991, known for originalist and textualist interpretation of the Constitution. Born 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, Thomas is one of the longest-serving current justices and among the most conservative voices on the Court.
Developed an expansive jurisprudence of originalism emphasizing the original public meaning of constitutional text; authored influential concurrences and dissents reexamining precedents from the Warren and Burger Court eras.
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