Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute’s Francis Boyer Award for 2001.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States has been selected to receive the American Enterprise Institute's Francis Boyer Award for 2001.

Congress has never before passed and the Supreme Court has never upheld a law requiring individuals to buy a commercial product, as Obamacare does. On this the Obama Democrats, not Clarence Thomas and judges following his lead, are the ones sweeping aside precedent.

His stances for limited government and individual freedom make him the left's lightning rod and the tea party's intellectual godfather. And he is only halfway through the 40 years he may sit on the high court.

Clarence Thomas's memoir, My Grandfather's Son, portrays a man of understanding and humility.

Rather than await the decision on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama decided to attack preemptively with error-filled claims about the place of judicial review in our constitutional system. Judicial review springs from the duty of a court, when deciding a case before it, to enforce the Constitution over a conflicting act of Congress.

The solitary atmosphere of the Supreme Court runs counter to Clarence Thomas's sociable nature.

Justice Clarence Thomas's decisive opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the Second Amendment limits the power of the states, was principled jurisprudence based clearly on the text of the Constitution.