article_snippet.sent: The one justice who didn't ask a question is Clarence Thomas, who, with one slight exception, has now gone over nine years without a single inquiry from the bench.  
article_snippet.sent: Clarence Thomas, who, with one slight exception, has now gone over nine years without a single inquiry from the bench should be carefully noted here that Thomas is a black man married to a white woman.  
article_snippet.sent: Just 20 years after the Supreme Court struck down the anti-miscegenation laws still in effect in 16 states, Clarence Thomas and Thomas wife, Virginia, were married.
article_snippet.sent: James Braxton Peterson, director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University, has written, "The fact that Thomas marriage required progressive the Supreme Court action must in some way inform the Thomas' marriage required progressive Supreme Court action sense of this moment."  
article_snippet.sent: Clarence Thomas didn't say one way or the other, though Clarence remarks outside court and in dissenting opinions
article_snippet.sent: suggest Clarence's firmly opposed to the Supreme Court doing for other loving relationships what it once did for Clarence own.
article_snippet.sent: On the one hand, pulling pages right from Republican presidential candidates, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts suggested the Supreme Court shouldn't intervene in a state-driven social debate.  