{"id":1576270,"date":"2022-07-28T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576270"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:40:36","slug":"clarence-thomas-wont-teach-law-class-after-student-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomas-wont-teach-law-class-after-student-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas Won\u2019t Teach Law Class After Student Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclarence-thomas-wont-teach-law-class-after-student-petition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a law course at the George Washington University after students threw a fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/28\/msnbc-chief-legal-analyst-makes-bold-claim-about-clarence-thomas-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas\u2019<\/a> co-lecturer Gregory Maggs sent an email to students about the unfortunate news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-will-not-teach-george-washington-law-seminar-uproar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> reported after obtaining a copy of the notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I am writing with some sad news: Justice Thomas has informed me that he is unavailable to co-teach the seminar this fall,\u201d Maggs reportedly wrote. \u201cI know that this is disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very sorry,\u201d he continued, according to Fox News. \u201cThe seminar has not been canceled but I will now be the sole instructor. For those of you still interested in taking the course, I assure you that we will make the best of the new situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7487001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7487001\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7487001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-620x413-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is seen in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. June 6, 2016. REUTERS\/Jonathan Ernst\/File Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-05-12T000000Z_2025596194_RC29EN964Z6C_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-THOMAS-1-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7487001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is seen in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. June 6, 2016. REUTERS\/Jonathan Ernst\/File Photo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maggs and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/28\/hillary-clinton-complains-clarence-thomas-is-filled-with-anger-grievance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> have taught the course together since 2011, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwhatchet.com\/2022\/07\/27\/supreme-court-justice-wont-teach-gw-law-seminar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GW Hatchet<\/a>. It is unclear why Thomas has opted out of teaching the course. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/27\/theyre-going-to-lose-their-liberties-clarence-thomas-makes-dire-warning-in-new-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018They\u2019re Going To Lose Their Liberties\u2019: Clarence Thomas Makes Dire Warning In New Book)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of students petitioned to remove Thomas from his role as a lecturer after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Rising junior Jon Kay started the petition saying it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d for Thomas to be on campus because his recent decisions \u201cactively\u201d endanger \u201cthe lives of the students on campus,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwhatchet.com\/2022\/06\/27\/thousands-sign-petition-calling-for-supreme-court-justices-removal-from-gw-law-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GW Hatchet<\/a>. The university <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/29\/george-washington-rejects-demands-cancel-clarence-thomas-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> it would not fire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/01\/clarence-thomas-fact-check-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-abortion-fetal-cell-tissue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwhatchet.com\/2022\/06\/28\/supreme-court-justice-to-remain-on-law-school-faculty-after-thousands-call-for-his-removal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GW Hatchet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause debate is an essential part of our University\u2019s academic and educational mission to train future leaders who are prepared to address the world\u2019s most urgent problems, the University will neither terminate Justice Thomas\u2019 employment nor cancel his class,\u201d the university said, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a law course at the George Washington University after students threw a fit.Thomas\u2019 co-lecturer Gregory Maggs sent an email to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}