I'm Elizabeth Slattery and I'm Tiffany Bates.

Welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking about a new documentary about Justice Thomas, recent arguments, and we're joined by Texas Supreme Court Justice Brett

Busby and his equally impressive wife, Aaron. So earlier this week, I went to the premiere

screening of a wonderful new documentary about Justice Thomas called Created Equal Justice Thomas

in his own words. And that's exactly what it was. It was a compilation of interviews with the Justice

himself, the producer, Michael Pack, sat down with Justice Thomas for about 30 hours and recorded

these videos. And it's just great. The Justice's wife, Ginny Thomas, made a couple of appearances,

but it was no one else. Other than that, it was just him. And it goes through his whole life story,

growing up dirt poor in Pinpoint Georgia, you know it was just him. And it goes through his whole life story, growing up

dirt poor in Pinpoint Georgia, you know, wandering the streets, and being raised by his grandparents

and especially his grandfather, who was pretty tough on him, but he learned a lot of really

important lessons from him. And we have a short clip to play from that.

Yeah. And we have a short clip to play from that. I was supposed to go to school in the afternoon.

My mother wasn't there to make me go,

because she had to go to work.

So I wandered to streets by myself.

I was six.

Yeah. wandered streets by myself. I was six. You were hungry and didn't know when you'd eaten cold and didn't know when you'd be warm again.

The documentary also goes through the justices entering and leaving seminary, being a radical leftist in college,

his conversion to conservatism. And he goes through his Supreme Court nomination and hearing.

And I think one of the funniest parts to me was when these clips of Joe Biden at the hearing

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