[jazusamo]

Emphasizing the importance of the Supreme Court, Thomas said “It’s not a game with me. It doesn’t deal with any ego stuff with me. This is about our country. And one of the things I want to do is I want to go to my grave knowing that I gave everything I had to trying to get it right.”

God Bless Justice Thomas.

[livius]

“You all are going to be, unfortunately, the recipients of the fallout from that – that there’s going to be a day when you need these institutions to be credible and to be fully functioning to protect your liberties,” he said...

I'm glad he's defending our institutions, too, which Obama is attacking so violently that I really don't think I've seen anything comparable...except in a banana republic when the dictator takes over.

As a Spanish translator, I've seen this a lot in recent years with the resurgence of the Latin American left. And they always launch an attack on the rule of law and the separation of powers (since many of their constitutions have a tripartite system modeled on ours).

Some days I feel like running out into the streets with a loudspeaker, because the same thing is happening here and we're just sitting back and watching it happen.