Do you remember where you were 34 years ago on this fine day? Clarence Thomas almost certainly does.

On Oct. 15, 1991, he ascended to the United States Supreme Court and kicked off a career based on a catastrophically broken sense of ethics.

Thomas replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, prevailing in 29, one of which was Brown v. Board of Education. But far from having such a storied legal career, Thomas served in various state and federal jobs for much of the 1970s and ’80s before serving for about a year on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He got the Supreme Court nod because he was one of a small number of Black conservative judges then-President George H.W. Bush could have tapped back in 1991.

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