{"id":150336,"date":"2026-05-04T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/04\/clarence-thomass-stranglehold-on-history\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:16:32","slug":"clarence-thomass-stranglehold-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/04\/clarence-thomass-stranglehold-on-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas\u2019s Stranglehold On History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>As of today, Clarence Thomas takes over Justice Stephen J. \u200cField for the third longest tenure on the Supreme Court, and on Thursday he\u2019ll capture the number 2 spot from which of his former colleagues?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Justice Thomas will have to wait until 2028 to take over the title of the longest serving Supreme Court justice from Justice William O. Douglas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/clarence-thomass-stranglehold-on-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clarence Thomas\u2019s Stranglehold On History<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>As of today, Clarence Thomas takes over Justice Stephen J. \u200cField for the third longest tenure on the Supreme Court, and on Thursday he\u2019ll capture the number 2 spot from which of his former colleagues?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Justice Thomas will have to wait until 2028 to take over the title of the longest serving Supreme Court justice from Justice William O. Douglas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/clarence-thomass-stranglehold-on-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clarence Thomas\u2019s Stranglehold On History<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! As of today, Clarence Thomas takes over Justice Stephen J. \u200cField for the third longest tenure on the Supreme Court, and on Thursday he\u2019ll capture the number 2 spot from which of his former colleagues? Hint: Justice Thomas will have to wait until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}