BOOK: Thomas Has “No Idea How I Got Nominated”

The Insider reports:

Clarence Thomas in a newly-released book said that he had “no idea why or how” he was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991 as he recounted the process that set him up to become one of most consequential conservative voices on the bench.

In the book, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” co-edited by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta, Thomas sat down with Pack for over 30 hours between November 2017 and March 2018, in what became an expanded companion to the 2020 documentary of the same name.

“I have no idea why or how I got nominated. All I know is that Justice Marshall retired, and that was a shock,” Thomas said. “My reaction was, ‘Oh no, this is going to be bad. People will go on a rumor that I’m one of the nominees.'”

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