{"id":92920,"date":"2026-05-12T06:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/john-yoo-the-rising-influence-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:43:15","slug":"john-yoo-the-rising-influence-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/john-yoo-the-rising-influence-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"John Yoo: The Rising Influence of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WALL STREET JOURNAL: This week Clarence Thomas becomes the second-longest-service Justice on the Supreme Court, and his impact on American law is growing.  Paul Gigot speaks with law professor and former Thomas clerk John Yoo about the Justice&#8217;s influence on the Court and the recent testy exchanges between Justices that have played out in public.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/11\/john_yoo_the_rising_influence_of_supreme_court_justice_clarence_thomas.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALL STREET JOURNAL: This week Clarence Thomas becomes the second-longest-service Justice on the Supreme Court, and his impact on American law is growing. Paul Gigot speaks with law professor and former Thomas clerk John Yoo about the Justice&#8217;s influence on the Court and the recent testy exchanges between Justices that have played out in public. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29101,579,9928,4386,2634,1728,6352,6751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}