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Thomas Speaking Engagement Sparks Protest at UGA

Daily Report

February 24, 2003

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will be this year's graduation speaker for the University of Georgia School of Law -- but not everyone is excited about his visit. Thomas' invitation has sparked a protest by UGA criminal law Professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr., who plans to boycott the graduation. He called the invitation of Thomas "appalling, unwise and perverse" and Thomas himself "the enemy of liberty."

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