Posted on 02/13/2011 12:23:13 PM PST by DemonDeac
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has dozed off during oral arguments. This has been documented, but ignored by the liberals in the MSM. It’s hard to think that she was paying attention if she was asleep. Yet this liberal hit piece seeks to accuse Clarence Thomas of not paying attention and doing his job if he’s not asking the questions during oral arguments.
So, a justice who is attentive but asks no questions is bad, but a justice who falls asleep is okay.
I think in truth, a liberal justice who falls asleep will be given a pass, while a conservative justice will be nailed for any transgression, real or imagined.
Would Clarence Thomas have been called out if he had fallen asleep? I think we all know the answer to that one.
I’m surprised to hear you say this. Clarence Thomas has had a long record of voting the right way, the conservative way, the constitutional way, in case after case.
He doesn’t join in the small talk because most of it is bogus. At least three of the justices are idiots, who probably have never even read the Constitution, or at least hold it in scorn. What’s the gain in making small talk and asking fake questions with idiots. Thomas knows how he intends to vote.
He doesn’t speak nonsense.
A huge plus.
If you want to complain about SC justices, how about the fools/leftist/perverts Kagan and Sotomayor? Why no word about them? Only criticizing Thomas?
IATZ
Kagan and Sotomayor would not have been picked were they not leftists and perverts and cronies of 0h0m0.
I watched a lecture to school kids in the inner city that Thomas did, and he explained all the going on's of the court and why he doesn't ask questions during oral argument...I have never said this to any freeper before, but you must be a liberal troll and a bigot to write what you do about Thomas.
Especially your affimative action remark without looking at the other justices and why they were put in place....
You're still here but that can't be said for everyone on this thread.
That’s a cheap shot. Questions by Justices are mostly sallies and oneupsmanship against colleagues. This makes for a good show at oral argument but rarely helps resolve cases. And anyone who thinks Justice Thomas is a lightweight ought to read his opinions. They are clear, well-reasoned, and manifest a coherent originalist philosophy.
And if he had asked a lot of questions they still would have written an article, about an uppity you-know-what who doesn’t know his place.
In the end all appointments are political appointments, and all elected are elected by a political process.
A man becomes a judge because politics doesn’t disagree with him. Judge Thomas’ selection for the court was indeed a political choice and a major reason for it was that he was then and continues to be, a negro. It is something he cannot change of his being.
Political winds blow this way awhile and then that way awhile. We are lucky that he was appointed, and we all benefit today by his HEROIC sufferance of the awful hearing process he went through.
IMO. he is the Judge on that court who reasons most close to that abstract and golden ideal that the Founders had for our nation.
I love it!!!
Thanks to the kitties!!!!
That guy made me come out of my chair and want to hit something.
Are you joking?
The communist Times vomits and you agree?
Justice Thomas is perhaps one of the most brilliant minds
on the Supreme court.
Perhaps you should read some of his opinions before making such a statement.
KELO V. NEW LONDON
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZD1.html
OTIS M c DONALD vs. CITY OF CHICAGO http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1521.ZC1.html
Affirmative action hire? Hardly. Not everyone is so thoroughly enamored with the sound of their own voice.
We got a live one here!
Stop right now...you know not of what you speak, and like Benjamin Franklin said, “it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubts.”
Thomas spoke up once during a cross-burning case before the court. Said exactly what a burning cross represented to him. Very pointed commentary that scorched the free speech argument that the attorneys were trying to make.
The Purple screen. LOL!
I saw the post and the wife called me to lunch. I told her what was posted and said it wouldn't surprise me DemonDeac gets the ZOT. Nuff said.
“He’s dead Jim”
Too stupid to posting on FreeRepublic.
This site used to be interesting until people like
you came along.
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