If you know what you believe in reference to the law, and the lawyers argue their cases well, there probably isn’t a lot of reason to ask questions.
I think Thomas also once said the other other Justices will almost always ask the same questions he is thinking anyway.
I like the question! Perhaps, in the past, Justice Thomas simply deferred to Scalia, who would ask all the necessary questions for him. I hope he can write like Scalia too.
The answer, of course, is that constitutional rights should never be suspended over an accusation or over a misdemeanor. We need a patriotic president who will use a litmus test in appointing justices and will insist on an originalist track record so we don't get any more stealth liberal activists.
Reminds me of this joke:
So there is this couple and they have a baby. The baby never starts speaking, even after 3 years. After four years of the boy not speaking the couple take the boy to the doctor, but the doctor says that everything is developing fine, and that there is nothing wrong with him.
Then one day, when the boy is eating some cereal, and he says, “this cereal needs more sugar.”.
“Jimmy,” the couple say, “you have never spoken before, why do you speak now?”
And the boy says, “Up until now everything had been fine”
Not from where I sit. Scalia was WAY more authoritarian pro-government than Thomas. Thomas is more willing to overturn past wrong decisions and limit the power of the government over their masters. (Not that Scalia was bad, he was light years ahead of the others, but I wouldn't put him in the same league with Thomas).
my guess is that with Scalia dead that Clearance Thomas will be asking more questions because Scalia always asked the questions that needed to be asked. now Thomas sees it as his job.
No, he just too lessons from Scalia.
Scalia’s spirit lives on!
God bless Justice Thomas.
“give another example where a misdemeanor conviction suspends a constitutional right”
Class?
He has to now, with his only buddy on his side gone.