The People's Justice

Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him

Amul Thapar

• Publisher: Regnery Gateway
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781684514526
• eBook ISBN: 9781684514663
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can't-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court." —Megyn Kelly, journalist "Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail to do: Thapar has focused on the men and women whose lives are before the nine and on how one justice, Clarence Thomas, has carefully, consistently, and compassionately applied his understanding of the Constitution to those lives." — Hugh Hewitt, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show and professor of law For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the "cruelest justice, " a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the man and the jurist, Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Every day, Americans go to court. Invoking the Constitution, they fight for their homes, for a better education for their children, and to save their cities from violence. Recounting the stories of a handful of these ordinary Americans whose struggles for justice reached the Supreme Court, Thapar shines new light on the heart and mind of Clarence Thomas. A woman in debilitating pain whose only effective medication has been taken away by the government, the motherless children of a slain police officer, victims of sexual assault— read their eye-opening stories, stripped of legalese, and decide for yourself whether Thomas's originalist jurisprudence delivers equal justice under law. "Finding the right answer, " Justice Thomas has observed, "is often the least difficult problem." What is needed is "the courage to assert that answer and stand firm in the face of the constant winds of protest and criticism." That courage—along with wisdom and compassion—shines out from every page of The People's Justice. At the heart of this book is the question: Would you want to live in Justice Thomas's America? After reading these stories, even his critics might be surprised by their answer.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “The Wolves Are at Our Door”
• Chapter 2: “Education Means Emancipation”
• Chapter 3: “Do Nothing with Us!”
• Chapter 4: The Professor and the Patient
• Chapter 5: Standing Alone
• Chapter 6: Beauty and the Beast
• Chapter 7: The Picture
• Chapter 8: Streets of Terror
• Chapter 9: The Sharecropper’s Son
• Chapter 10: Causation or Correlation?
• Chapter 11: A Good Neighbor?
• Chapter 12: Three Men and a Cross
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright