Posted on 05/04/2019 1:59:16 PM PDT by upsdriver
Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court justice for nearly three decades. It may finally be his moment.
Many Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employee Anita Hill charges he denied. People may know hes a conservative and has gone years without speaking during arguments at the court. But scholars say it would be wise to pay closer attention to Thomas.
Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position, and hes said he doesnt plan on retiring anytime soon. With President Donald Trumps nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights.
Thomas, for the first time, is on a court where there are at least four votes for some pretty radical decisions, said political science professor Corey Robin, the author of a Thomas book due out in September. Robin says the question will be whether the courts more conservative justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito can get Chief Justice John Roberts, a more moderate conservative, to go along.
Thomas, 70, became the high courts longest-serving justice, the senior associate justice, when Justice Anthony Kennedy retired last summer . But unlike Kennedy, who sat at the courts ideological center and was most often the deciding vote when the court split 5-4, Thomas is consistently on the courts far right.
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43 snake in grass
After what I saw them do to him, its a blessing that he was able to grow old on the court. Justice Thomas earns the last laugh.
If you are talking about roberts I totally agree.
You’re thinking of Alito. Miers would have been 43’s second SCOTUS justice. Roberts and Miers.
I have to say, I recall we were warned about Roberts by some conservative groups.
It puts 43’s critique of 45 in some context, doesn’t it?
Thomas isnt conservative, as much as literate.
i think i already said why...
So Trump can appoint a conservative 25 years younger
And Kennedy was no moderate. He helped impose fag marriage on the nation, supposedly through the 14th Amendment. After retirement, he said in an interview that his decision had nothing to do with the Constitution. It just “felt right.”
D@amn such tyrants to hell.
I always said that KENNEDY was the most powerful man in America because he was the 5th vote in the Supremes. His vote was the one that everyone who appeared before the Court HAD to have his vote. Normally, his vote made or denied a case. He carried more power than anyone, even the prez because he could make or break even the president’s laws.
Roberts has been compromised, they have something on him.
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