The Black Man Democrats Love to Lynch...Electronically

A new look at Clarence Thomas also sheds light in a fascinating way on the history and operations of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Richard Kirk | October 6, 2026

Largely the product of nine and a half hours of one-on-one interview sessions, Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas is designed to provide insight into the personal and constitutional bases for Justice Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court opinions.  Those opinions, alongside observations about internal dynamics of the Court, are the focus of the last half of the book, topics with which Ted Cruz, the interviewer, has direct experience as a clerk to former chief justice William Rehnquist and as a litigator before a Court that included Justice Thomas.  Cruz also provides commentary on Court cases throughout the book, generally linking Thomas’s life experience to later judicial opinions.      

Thomas’s childhood days with his mother are covered briefly — conditions of extreme deprivation made worse by the absence of a father from the family.  Anyone seeking more information about those or later years should consult Thomas’s autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son.  At age seven, Thomas is sent to be raised by his grandfather, Myers Anderson, whose work ethic and self-reliance in appalling circumstances helped mold Thomas’s character.

Accordingly, Thomas’s law office is filled with various colloquial sayings uttered by Myers, for whom education was all-important and for which he made sacrifices to send Clarence to Catholic school and later to seminary.  Thomas’s work mastering Latin and overcoming his Geechee dialect clearly dispels, alongside subsequent academic achievements, any idea that he lacked the intellectual qualifications to be on the Supreme Court — a........

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