Jonah, Clarence Thomas is the victim of a great historical injustice (and I’m not talking about his confirmation hearings, so make that two great historical injustices). For years the media has portrayed Thomas as a Scalia clone who can’t think for himself. Actually, it turns out that Thomas has a powerful judicial philosophy of his own and has influenced Scalia and many of the other justices–from the moment of his very first case conference. Jan Crawford Greenberg told the fascinating truth about Clarence Thomas in a presentation the other day at EPPC. Here’s a link to her book, and to the audio of her talk. (I’d say the part about Thomas came about halfway through her remarks.)