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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said hes concerned efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices may erode the institutions credibility, speaking Friday in Utah at an event hosted by former Republican U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatchs foundation.
Thomas, the most senior justice on the nine-member court, said he often worries about the long-term repercussions of trends such as cancel culture and a lack of civil debate.
You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the court. You can cavalierly talk about doing this or doing that. At some point the institution is going to be compromised, he told an audience of about 500 people at an upscale hotel in Salt Lake City.
By doing this, you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if theyre going to have civil society, Thomas said.
https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-utah-salt-lake-city-1887c7066a9dc3293099ddb15fdfdc9f
CurtEastPoint
(18,552 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)Complaining about packing the Supreme Court is like complaining about the transfer of wealth the right always bellows when higher taxes are mentioned.
BOTH of those things have already happened.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Does bush v Gore ring a bell Clarence?
Does Citizen United ring a bell Clarence?
Does overturning vaccine mandates ring a bell Clarence?
Does the Judicial Crisis Network ring a bell Clarence?
Does overturning large parts of the 1964 Civil Rights act ring a bell Clarence?
cloudbase
(5,486 posts)"I'll have to ask Ginni and get back to you."
bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)Dude, that ship has sailed way over the horizon... And his own wife, a conservative activist for years, is smack in the middle of the whole MAGA Stop The Steal bullshit, and is obviously the most significant conduit for right-wing ops directly to the court. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html
Just fuck that guy.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)No mirror shall he pass o'er, that bares the rot of his true core.
Cha
(295,926 posts)Fascist Fuck of a wife Ginny.
💙💛
Initech
(99,915 posts)Bristlecone
(10,084 posts)That court stepped closer to compromise. He us a clown.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,206 posts)a sick joke. The only way to even try to right this ship is to ADD folks to the court.
alwaysinasnit
(5,037 posts)ymetca
(1,182 posts)so his wife can continue to suck at the teat of the Koch bros.
Also, it amazes me how they can keep pretending the Supreme Court has ever been anything but political.
He makes the argument for "court packing" that much more viable.
These so-called "originalists" are really becoming tiresome with their hubris. Indeed, an increasing threat to the "civil society" they imagine they are maintaining.
What's "civil", pray tell, about allowing States to post bounties on pregnant women?
RAB910
(3,445 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)CousinIT
(9,151 posts)due to REPUBLICANS PACKING IT WITH POLITICAL OPERATIVES.
The institution IS ALREADY COMPROMISED. And the fact that HE was sat on that court is a big part of that.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Unqualified, serial sexual harasser.
Not that it wasn't full of shit before...
JHB
(37,132 posts)The rest of us are worried about the long-term repercussions of trends such as packing the courts with "conservatively correct" judges via explicitly ideological judicial organizations like the Federalist Society, and the Republican Party's outsourcing of vetting and the Senate's advise and consent responsibilities to such unreservedly partisan organizations.
Irish_Dem
(45,640 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)was that he kept Thomas from talking.