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To: markomalley

Revenge is a dish best served up cold.


4 posted on 08/31/2011 5:21:16 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

It is so typically leftist to want Thomas to recuse himself and the “wise latina” not to, even though she has more involvement in this issue than Thomas.


5 posted on 08/31/2011 5:25:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Daveinyork
Revenge is a dish best served up cold.

This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. And it is a message, that unless you kowtow to the old order you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured … by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.

God bless Justice Clarence Thomas. A true American Patriot.

7 posted on 08/31/2011 5:30:27 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Daveinyork
Here's a great couple of quotes from Toobin's New Yorker article:

"From the moment Thomas arrived on the Court, he has been a committed originalist; he believes the Constitution should be interpreted as the words were understood by the men who wrote it. “When faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution’s original meaning,” Thomas wrote in an opinion from 2005."

"When interpreting a constitutional provision,” Thomas wrote earlier this year, “the goal is to discern the most likely public understanding of that provision at the time it was adopted.” To that end, he plumbs the words of the framers and the eighteenth-century (and earlier) thinkers who influenced Jefferson, Madison, and their contemporaries. No other Justice, not even Scalia, studies the historical record with as much care, and enthusiasm, as Thomas. In June, Thomas dissented from Scalia’s opinion holding unconstitutional the California law limiting the sale of violent video games to children. “A complete understanding of the founding generation’s views on children and the parent-child relationship must therefore begin roughly a century earlier, in colonial New England,” Thomas wrote. Following a survey of child-rearing in the eighteenth century, Thomas concluded that the “founding generation would not have considered it an abridgment of ‘the freedom of speech’ to support parental authority by restricting speech that bypasses minors’ parents.”

Three cheers for the greatest Supreme Court justice of the 20th century.

20 posted on 08/31/2011 4:11:56 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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