Supreme Court Justice Resume 1 (Gold) JUSTICE'S NAME BIRTHDATE POSITION Clarence Thomas June 23, 1948 (73 yrs old) Associate Justice PRESIDENT WHO APPOINTED HOME STATE DATE SWORN IN (include political party) Georgia October 23, 1991 George H.W. Bush Republican Party Previous Work Experience (add more rows below if needed): JOB TITLE DATES OF EMPLOYMENT POSITION Assistant attorney 1974-1977 General of missouri Attorney 1977-1979 Monsato, St. louis Legislative assistant 1979-1981 Senator john danforth Assistant secretary of 1981-1982 U.S. Dept of Education education, office of civil rights Chairman, EEOC 1982-1990 Judge 1990-1991 United states court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit Associate Justice 1991- present Education (add more rows below if needed): SCHOOL YEAR GRADUATED DEGREE EARNED Conception seminary college 1967-1968 Holy cross college 1971 Bachelors Yale university 1974 LawLe alPhiloso h lm ortant Cases thelustice Has Decided Personali Mannerisms As a Supreme Court justice, Thomas is notorious for his lack of questions during oral arguments. While many justices use questions to show their opinion on an issue or communicate with the other justices as to their feelings on a case, Thomas remains silent but that does not hinder the other justices from discerning his thoughts. His reputation of conservativism guides their predictions. He has shown his opinions to lean farther right than any other justice on the bench today. Though Thomas is known for his lack of engagement in the oral arguments, his intellect is indispensable to his conservative cohorts. He contributed heavily both to Scalia's opinion in District of Common: 1:. Heller, a gun control case, and Kennedy's opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a major campaign nance law case. Thomas also penned the conservative majority decision in Good News Ciao 1:. Milford Central School, where he stated that the public school violated the First Amendment when it refused to allow a religious club from meeting there. He also wrote a dissent in Gonzales v. Reich that exhibited his relative case at overturning decades of precedent. The Gonzales case focused on the Commerce Clause powers granted to Congress in the Constitution and whether they reach so far as to allow regulation of a woman growing medicinal marijuana for personal use as granted by her home state. Thomas argued that allowing the Commerce Clause and congressional regulation to reach into a situation where there was no direct connection to commerce was unconstitutional. Supreme Court experts describe Thomas's jurisprudence as a textualist, stressing the original meaning of the United States Constitution and statutes. He is also, along with fellow justice Neil Gorsuch, an advocate of natural law. Many writers view Thomas as the Court's most conservative member. Clarence Thomas is known for his quiet, stoic demeanor during oral arguments and his conservative viewpoint that challenges, if not surpasses, even Scalia's originalism. Supreme Court Justice Resume 2 (Purple) JUSTICE'S NAME BIRTHDATE POSITION Elena Kagan April 28, 1960 Associate Justice PRESIDENT WHO APPOINTED HOME STATE DATE SWORN IN (include political party) New York August 7, 2010 Barack Obama Democratic Party Previous Work Experience (add more rows below if needed); JOB TITLE DATES OF EMPLOYMENT POSITION Law clerk 1986-1987 United states court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit Law clerk 1987-1988 Supreme court of the united states Private practice 1989-1991 Washington, d.c Professor of law 1991-1997 Uni of Chicago law school Special counsel 1993 Senate judiciary committee Deputy assistant to the 1997-1999 Clinton administration president for domestic policy Huston professor of law 1999-2003 Harvard university Dean 2003-2009 Harvard law school Solicitor general of the united 2009-2010 states Associate justice 2010- present Supreme court of the united states Education(add more rows below if needed); SCHOOL YEAR GRADUATED DEGREE EARNED Princeton University 1981 A.B Worcester College at the uni of 1983 Masters oxford Harvard Law School 1986 LDLegal Philosophy, Important Cases the Justice Has Decided, Personality/Mannerisms Kagan added a diverse viewpoint as the youngest sitting justice and the only sitting justice with no prior judicial experience. This allowed for a more pragmatic approach to the law. She joined Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor as the ladies of the court, putting three female justices together on the court for the first time in history. Kagan's opinion-writing is scarce in comparison to some of her colleagues. She was forced to recuse herself frequently in her early years on the court, as a result of having worked as President Clinton's counsel. Kagan also rarely writes concurring opinions, as it takes away from the consensus of the court, a quality that Kagan is known for attempting to bolster. Kagan, a longtime comic book fan, is responsible for the very whimsical majority opinion in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment. The patent-focused decision was peppered with Spiderman references, even going so far as Kagan citing a Spiderman comic. Since then, Kagan has garnered a reputation for being the justice most in touch with pop culture and technology. Kagan also joined the majority in two historic decisions in 2015. The first was King v. Burwell, where the court held that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional. The second was Obergefell v. Hodges, where the Supreme Court declared that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right. Her alignment with the majority, in this case, surprised some because Kagan made a statement during her confirmation hearings that said she did not believe same-sex marriage was a federal and constitutional right. Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Oversight Board (2009) Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2009) Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson (2009) Salazar v. Buono (2009) United States v. Comstock (2009) Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2008) Kagan has shown herself to be liberal; though, upon closer inspection, she exhibits conservative stances on some major issues of today, such as executive power and the First Amendment. Replacing Justice Stevens, she embodies some of the same characteristics and tendencies; yet, there are key areas in which they differ