“A nice little article about Justice Clarence Thomas”
By the AP(!)
I have admired him since the Anita Hill onslaught. He stood firm and earned his place on the court. Reading his opinions, mostly dissenting, has just increased my admiration for him.
Wow, hard to believe he is the longest serving justice now. I’m getting old.
“Nice”?
Calling Justice Thomas “far-right” is NICE?
We have different interpretations of that word, I suppose.
Then again, during Reagan’s tenure as President, Thomas was considered by some to be centrist slightly right, but things change, don’t they?
I refuse to let the barking moonbats define what is “mainstream”, as they are so far left Marx himself is considered reactionary.
My theory is that Thurgood Marshall assumed GHWB would be re-elected easily in 1992 because his poll numbers were so high right after the Gulf War. Bush was able to nominate Clarence Thomas only because of Marshall’s retirement. If Marshall had remained on the court until his death, Bill Clinton would have chosen his replacement—for sure a black leftist (and probably a woman because Hillary would have demanded it).
Roberts ain’t no moderate conservative. If anything, he is a moderate liberal. His mess in the Obammy healthcare bill proved he cannot be a conservative of any type. He ruled with the left that day on the biggest case in decades.
“Far right.”
For the sake of symmetry, I’ sure Jessica Gresko uses “far left” when she writes about Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg, Breyer, and the Wide Latina.
Judge Thomas is a treasure.
Thank God he’s there to serve as a counter example for Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy.
The judge is a genius.
The ex-president is excrement.
Wrong. Actually Mr Robin (a political science professor who has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, and other media outlets, i.e., a statist) the question is whether the court's more liberal justices can either outlive or avoid retirement before the end Trump Administration. If so, Roberts becomes irrelevant.
I wish he would retire and take a well-deserved retirement, and give Trump his suggestion for his replacement.
Hi.
“Thomas is consistently on the court’s far right.”
I consider Justice Thomas, “normal.” I consider Ginsburg and Kagan “far left.”
AP.
5.56mm
He should have been Chief Justice
Interesting note that the McDonough v Smith heard a couple weeks ago saw Justice Thomas carefully supporting a frail RBG when they left the bench.
Three words that really irritate me:
Chief Justice Roberts
We were promised a strict constructionist by 43. We got a lackey instead.
I have less use for 43 than 44. And that is saying a lot.
“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 he’s said he doesn’t plan on retiring anytime soon. With President Donald Trump’s nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control...”
Thank Goodness for Justice Thomas, and Thank Goodness for PDJT. If nothing else, we can thwart the INSANE Socialists via SCOTUS, if not at the Ballot Box.
If I were Justice Thomas, for the sake of the country and conservative rule-of-law sensibilities, I’d consider retiring while DJT is president, thereby guaranteeing a younger conservative replacement. If he rolls the dice and “moves on” under a Dem, the court will change once again back to liberal.
Yes, radical as in going to the roots: the Constitution as written. At least one Thomas decision (in dissent) has called into question the FDR-era Wickard v Filburn ruling's "substantial effect" test on which much of the leftist federal Leviathan is based. (Right-statist pseudo-conservatives should note that the federal War on Drugs is also so based.)