Clarence Darrow

(noun)

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857–March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, who headed the short-lived and highly critical National Recovery Review Board.

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Examples of Clarence Darrow in the following topics:

  • The Scopes Trial

    • Prominent attorney Clarence Darrow spoke in defense of Scopes by presenting the Modernist argument in favor of the Theory of Evolution.
    • Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan argued the Scopes Trial in 1925, making opposing arguments regarding the teaching of evolution.

  • The Social Problem

    • In Chicago, noted attorney Clarence Darrow made vocal arguments that poverty and not biology created crime.

  • Women's Rights after Suffrage

    • Prominent civil rights attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge.

  • Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action

    • Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has argued that affirmative action programs disadvantage minority students because others think that they achieved success due to affirmative action rather than their own merits.

  • The Supreme Court and the Burden of Proof

    • The sitting court consists of Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
    • Bottom row (left to right): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G.

  • The Supreme Court

    • The current Chief Justice is John Roberts; the eight associate justices are Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
    • Bottom row (left to right): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G.

  • The Coal Strike of 1902

    • Darrow, for his part, summed up the pages of testimony of mistreatment he had obtained in the soaring rhetoric for which he was famous for saying: "we are working for democracy, for humanity, for the future, for the day will come too late for us to see it or know it or receive its benefits, but which will come, and will remember our struggles, our triumphs, our defeats, and the words which we spake. "

  • The Confirmation Process

    • Bottom row (left to right): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G.

  • Privacy Rights and Abortion

    • Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the two recent appointees, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the swing vote, which came from moderate justice Anthony Kennedy.

  • Sexual Harassment

    • The term sexual harassment was actually largely unknown until the early 1990s, when Anita Hill accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the course of his Senate confirmation hearings for his position on the United States Supreme Court.