Posted on 05/14/2022 5:35:10 AM PDT by Morgana
Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday compared the leak of fellow Justice's Samuel Alito's draft opinion, which would overturn abortion protections under Roe v Wade, to 'infidelity.'
Thomas, 73, said that at a conference that the leak would weaken the public's trust in the Supreme Court as an institution, calling the unauthorized disclosure of deliberations 'tremendously bad.'
In his remarks, the conservative justice, who has long called for overturning Roe, hinted that a liberal clerk may have leaked Alito's draft opinion, and lamented that partisan rancor has grown more entrenched on the high court.
Thomas pondered: 'I wonder how long we're going to have these institutions at the rate we're undermining them, and then I wonder when they're gone or destabilized what we will have as a country and I don't think the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.'
He continued: 'When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I'm in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It's like kind of an infidelity – that you can explain it but you can't undo it,' reports Politico.
Thomas, a nominee of President George H.W. Bush, said it was beyond 'anyone's imagination' before the May 2 leak of the opinion that even a line of a draft opinion would be released in advance, much less an entire draft that runs nearly 100 pages.
Thomas, who has long said he believes the Roe decision should be overturned, was speaking at the Old Parkland Conference, a meeting of black conservatives, in Dallas where he was Friday's keynote speaker.
Following his speech, Thomas sat for a questions and answers session with John Yoo of Berkeley Law School.
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Your making my point. The Federal Government, and it’s Judges have been legislating from the bench since Roe v Wade. Your example is another trampling of the States and Peoples right to legislate themselves.
Roe v Wade take down isn’t about abortion, in my mind, it’s about what Alito said
Power to the People
Democrats are all for Democracy, till it disagrees with them. Then they are all about Judicial overreach.
Woops, yep. Assumed its gender.
“hinted that a liberal clerk may have leaked”
This is how the left destroys institutions. They’ve done it time and again.I'm not being picky, and I'm not complaining, but I want you to recognize that the same degradation of standards that Justice Thomas is pointing to has brought about your incorrect use of the third-person plural pronoun "they" for the singular "it."
Social justice 14th Amendment-based lawmaking from the court began with Brown v. Board of Education.
If someone can cite an earlier case I’d appreciate the information.
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