Justice Thomas Finds Himself in Inauguration Controversy

Justice Clarence Thomas recently presided over a little-noticed inauguration that has generated controversy. Thomas swore in Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, a close protégé of one-time Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted for defying a federal order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a judicial building. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said, "If Thomas ever had any chance of becoming chief justice, this action should kill it."

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