When did Justice Clarence Thomas become so talkative??? I've never heard him talk...

[a kennedy]

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. Since Scalia died...

...Thomas has had to make his own decisions.

[AJT]

2. I've read a number if articles that was Thomas, behind the scenes,

that was influencing Scalia.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Thomas hasn't been that vocal on the court since Scalia died, it is still unusual for him

to be involved in the questioning.

[Act_of_Reparation]

8. It wasn't intended to be a serious response.

I'm not sure what's gotten into him lately. I doubt anything good will come of it, though.

[brooklynite]

3. Its a ventriloquism act...Justice Alito's lips hardly move...

[PoliticAverse]

4. There are 2 issues that Thomas has been vocal about (away from the court). Roe v Wade...

and the 2nd amendment. It's not surprising he's involved in the discussion.

[Joinfortmill]

5. Because he loves this law, I assume.

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. ooooh that's a good one!

[Tomconroy]

7. It's apparently quite recent. The court did a study that found male judges

we're interrupting female judges questions so Justice Roberts changed the way oral arguments were conducted
Under the new rules Justice Thomas has found his voice. There was an article about it in the Times today.

[Princess Turandot]

9. When they went to phone based hearings during the pandemic...

The Chief Justice decided that each justice would have their allotted time for questions/discussions that could not be interrupted by any of the others, since a more relaxed approach wasn't going to work at all on a conference phone call with 9 judges and at least 2 attorneys.

Thomas started asking questions then. His explanation was that he believed that the usual more 'free flowing' approach in court was too uncivil to bother with, but the phone rules had fixed that.

Although he never asked many questions, Thomas has long churned out more written words than the others, attaching his own concurring opinions or dissents to a whole bunch of cases.

[thucythucy]

11. Years back I attended USSC oral arguments on two cases.

Thomas said nothing either time. My sense at the time was that he was bored.

Scalia on the other hand was an out and out jerk. Interrupting the attorneys whose case he didn't support--he'd obviously made up his mind and no argument was going to sway him on either occasion. Lots of snark, lots of sarcasm, seemed to enjoy humiliating someone who had too much self discipline and respect for decorum to respond.

I had no use for either of them.

[48656c6c6f20]

12. Heard It was his 30th year on bench today?

Maybe just look at me moment. Seems like the tyoe.

[Polybius]

14. Looks like that was 8 days ago

October 23rd, 1991. I'm surprised no media covered it. He's got a real chance to break the record of 36 years.

[ShazamIam]

13. I have read changes were made to procedures so that the female justices weren't constantly

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interrupted by the men. The unexpected is it then freed up Thomas to speak without being interrupted and he has.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/politics/sotomayor-oral-arguments/index.html

edit: femal to female