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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Lieu shines light on Clarence Thomas' gaslighting.
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Dear Justice Clarence Thomas: Stop gaslighting the American people. You just voted to allow an extreme Texas anti-abortion, anti-freedom law to go into effect even though it violates the law of the land, Roe v. Wade. And you did it by hiding behind your cowardly shadow docket.
Lovie777
(12,260 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Clarence is all worried now about the Court losing some of its unearned luster? How about a Justice who never recuses himself and routinely rules on matters directly affecting his wife? Oh, he's closely examined the situation and can assure the American people that he can be impartial. But oddly enough, Wife Ginni's business always is looked upon favorably by Justice Thomas.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)StClone
(11,683 posts)He has never been for justice, only for conservative extremism with rulings dismantling protections for humanity. He is in it for the causes of corporatists and elites.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." (When it comes to how disengaged he is when cases come before the court, in any case.)
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Honestly, if Scalia had ever tripped over his own shoe laces, Thomas would have died of a broken neck.
He always did whatever Scalia did, and when Scalia died he looked like a lost little puppy.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)and there are no more boats. He has a face for every audience but none of them are true.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)is not popular.
ShazzieB
(16,390 posts)Replacing the late, great Thurgood Marshall with this subpar sexual harasser was a travesty. George H.W. Bush should have withdrawn his nomination as soon as it became clear what kind of a sleazebag he was.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)This is thomas' spinning wiki version:
According to Thomas, the law firms also "asked pointed questions, unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated."[23] In his 2007 memoir, Thomas wrote, "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas
Actually, it seemed that the law recruiters smelled 'something'. Thomas, despite the Yale degree, went off to a Missouri [Sen. Danforth?, appointment]. A fast track went all the the through a Court of Appeals, and Scotus. The Yale law degree merely flashed as the rw powers of interest proprelled him forward.
[Disclosure. Clarence came to my law office before this judicial appointments, seeking government subsidies. Brief meeting. Admittedly I was warned as to his character. My impression, was a short, serious weight lifting individual, brimming to the core with a deep, deep, anger].
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)everybody forget wifey bought tickets for people to the big show at the capitol ?
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)a kennedy
(29,658 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,156 posts)So it's a concerted effort at conservative disinformation?
FormerDittoHead
(5,155 posts)I remember hearing some talk about his retirement in 2020 so they could replace him with someone much younger.
Dodged THAT bullet...
dchill
(38,489 posts)Ladies and gentlemen, Clarence Thomas.
Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)that in the last 2 weeks or so he's actually spoken more than he has in the last 30 years. It tells me that he's in CYA mode.
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BidenRocks
(826 posts)you POS!
calimary
(81,239 posts)marble falls
(57,081 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)flying_wahini
(6,594 posts)They should be. IMO.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)his actions are his tell, his words are smoke.
He thinks he fooled everybody by not ever saying anything. He is partisan as fuck and always has been.
He treats womens like shit, Anita was telling the truth, everybody knew and voted for him anyways.
Ted Lieu is national hero
Clarence is a national disgrace and right now so is the supreme court.