Georgia’s state Senate passed legislation on Feb. 14 to erect a statue honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the state capitol in Atlanta, over the impassioned objections of Democratic lawmakers.
Thomas, a black man, has long been a target of the left for his conservative, constitutionalist views and has been bitterly denounced by Democrats for years, often in offensive, racial terms.
Now 74, Thomas was born June 23, 1948, in Pin Point, Georgia. He was nominated by then-President George H.W. Bush and narrowly confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 1991 after a bruising confirmation battle whose intense, partisan tone helped to set the stage for today’s often combative and highly choreographed Supreme Court confirmations….