Time Magazine's New Cover Shows The Ghost of Clarence Thomas Haunting Brett Kavanaugh

[DonViejo]

by Caleb Howe | Sep 20th, 2018, 10:29 am

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Time‘s new cover has Brett Kavanaugh in the foreground, and a large, looming, ghostly figure of Clarence Thomas, circa 1991, haunting him in the background. Or maybe it’s not the ghost of 1991 Thomas. Maybe Kavanaugh is casting a Thomas shadow for some reason, instead of being in Thomas’ shadow.

Whatever one can conjecture it may evoke, it’s pretty on-the-nose to the headline, which reads “What’s Changed”. Not much to that imagery. The past image. The present image. The end.

Luckily, you can click through to the article by Molly Ball, intriguingly titled “Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Confirmation Is Now the Ultimate Test of Political Power in 2018”, hopeful of finding a little more depth than the cover image.

It was a hazy accusation: hesitantly lodged, short on detail and curiously timed. But Ford’s charge shattered Kavanaugh’s carefully crafted tableau, calling into doubt the image he projected. The row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts, looked different now.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. What's Changed? Absolutely NOTHING

that's WHAT!

[procon]

2. Paints a picture of the real moral values of the Gop that Republicans would

put up two men charged with abusing women to sit in judgement over 50% of the population. Women who will find no justice in the US courts as long as this mindset defines Republicans.

[FakeNoose]

3. Justice Thomas has done nothing to distinguish himself in 27 years

We're talking about what he did and said when he was nominated. That happened in 1991.

Once he was approved he's done nothing except vote like a good little Republican. Why is he even on the SCOTUS bench? When has his opinion ever mattered? If Brett Kavanaugh gets on the bench, he'll be taking up space just like Thomas.