ABSTRACT
M. C. Thomas was born June 23, 1948, in Pinpoint, Georgia, just outside Savannah, to Thomas and Leola Thomas. Thomas was raised in a religious household that emphasized the importance of education. By the time Thomas finished high school, he was considering a career in the priesthood and enrolled in the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Conception, Missouri, in 1967. According to Thomas, it was at that moment that he decided to leave the seminary. Thomas's confirmation hearings were marred by sexual harassment allegations by law professor and former employee Anita Hill. Thomas quickly aligned himself with the Court's most conservative justices and was branded as a "Scalia clone" because of his close philosophical ties with Justice Antonin Scalia. In Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 US 70, Justice Thomas concurred with the majority and in a separate opinion criticized federal courts for overstepping their equitable powers to remedy segregation.
