Supreme Court Takes a Slap at Racist Texas Court: In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 20-year-old murder conviction of Thomas Miller-El. The convicted murderer has been residing on death row for the murder of a clerk during a robbery that took blace in 1985.

The Court overturned the verdict based on the fact that the Texas prosecutor had deliberately stacked the jury pool, denying the accused of his right to a trial by his peers as protected by the U.S. Constitution. The prosecutor in the case had used his "peremptory strike" to remove ten of eleven black jurors. This meant the prosecution did not need to justify its objections to particular jurors. The rational, of course, was obvious.

One of the more interesting aspects of this case is who voted in the minority. Justice Thomas, the man who is on the court because he is black, wrote the dissenting opinion. Thomas doesn't believe racism was a factor in the case. But then that's why Thomas is on the court—to prove that racism doesn't exist anywhere in this country. According to Thomas, everything is just hunky-dory. Thomas knows how to toe the party line.