Justice Clarence Thomas
[It’s] surprising that it has taken so long [for the museum to acknowledge such a] seminal figure on the U.S. Supreme Court.
— Professor Ronald Rotunda of the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, commenting on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s new exhibit on Justice Clarence Thomas, which also features Justice Thurgood Marshall. The conservative justice was excluded from the museum’s offerings when it first opened one year ago, which resulted in a bit of controversy.
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