ClydeR
07-28-2022, 12:39 PM
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall, according to an email addressed to students in the seminar that was obtained by The Hatchet.
Gregory Maggs, who has co-taught the course with Thomas since 2011, stated in an email addressed to the class that Thomas is “unavailable” to co-teach the course in the fall, and Thomas is no longer listed as a lecturer on GW Law’s course list. Thomas’ withdrawal from the course comes a month after more than 11,000 community members signed a petition demanding his removal from GW, but officials declined to remove him from his role after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
More... (https://www.gwhatchet.com/2022/07/27/supreme-court-justice-wont-teach-gw-law-seminar/)
Fifty student leaders penned (https://www.gwhatchet.com/2022/07/01/dozens-of-student-leaders-continue-push-to-remove-supreme-court-justice-from-faculty/) an open letter last month calling on GW to remove Thomas from teaching after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, also calling on the Court to reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage.
Everybody online seems to assume it was because of the backlash. Nothing released by the university indicates that his resignation was related to the backlash over what he said in the abortion case.
Gregory Maggs, who has co-taught the course with Thomas since 2011, stated in an email addressed to the class that Thomas is “unavailable” to co-teach the course in the fall, and Thomas is no longer listed as a lecturer on GW Law’s course list. Thomas’ withdrawal from the course comes a month after more than 11,000 community members signed a petition demanding his removal from GW, but officials declined to remove him from his role after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
More... (https://www.gwhatchet.com/2022/07/27/supreme-court-justice-wont-teach-gw-law-seminar/)
Fifty student leaders penned (https://www.gwhatchet.com/2022/07/01/dozens-of-student-leaders-continue-push-to-remove-supreme-court-justice-from-faculty/) an open letter last month calling on GW to remove Thomas from teaching after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, also calling on the Court to reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage.
Everybody online seems to assume it was because of the backlash. Nothing released by the university indicates that his resignation was related to the backlash over what he said in the abortion case.