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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'We were a family': Clarence Thomas bemoans lost trust at the Supreme Court
By Bob Brigham
Published May 13, 2022
Controversial Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained that a draft decision overturning the right to abortion was leaked
Thomas made his remarks at the Old Parkland Conference, where he was interviewed by torture memo author John Yoo, Politico reported.
When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that Im in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder, Thomas said. Its kind of like infidelity that you can explain it, but you cant undo it.
https://www.rawstory.com/ginny-thomas/
You voted to attack and eviscerate the Voting Rights Act....
You voted to let unfettered money buy political power unchallenged the breeds corruption...
And then there is your wife who thinks my vote should be thrown out.....and supports sedition / insurrections.....
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Jack-o-Lantern
(972 posts)orleans
(34,079 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,505 posts)jmbar2
(4,909 posts)Get out of my house, you traitor.
spooky3
(34,484 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)I don't give a fuck.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)Yeah, that can be uncomfortable if you've avoided it your entire career.
Cry me a river. You've been instrumental in the destruction of our nation as we knew it. He's just having a sad because the spotlight is on him now for his choices. Well, suck it up buttercup. Choices have consequences. Deal. Just like all the rest of us have had to deal with your bad choices.
electric_blue68
(14,956 posts)Screw you!
stopdiggin
(11,384 posts)"How? How? Could this have happened, I ask you?"
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)Hekate
(90,848 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,228 posts)slightlv
(2,845 posts)Wish I could rec this a thousand times!!! We sure don't keep up with the times, do we? Not enough representatives to represent the people, and not enough SCOTUS judges to represent the court circuits. Did we just stop trying to keep up with the times when greed took over in the late 70's?
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)everyone and now nobody trusts me. Sheesh! If there was ever any doubt he was a narcissistic asshole its gone now.
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)Marcuse
(7,522 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)One of the symptoms of intellectual exhaustion is when you dont know what you dont know.
A Supreme Court justice is supposed to be the smartest person on the law in the United States, top of the class. Statements like this accidentally expose the obvious lackThomas complains to the mass media about the lack of his courts privacy.
You cant make this shit up.
Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)That takes some nerve.
Novara
(5,856 posts)...we're victims. Never mind that we are bullying the entire country; we're the real victims, waaaaahhhhh.
Gosh, when obviously unqualified political hacks - one of them who LIKES BEER, YOU KNOW - join your ranks, what did you expect? When the country wakes up and sees what you're doing - shattering the very precedents you vowed to uphold - they don't like it. When justices LIE in order to be seated on a bench which is supposedly the highest ethical standard in the land, PEOPLE GET ANGRY. When you refuse to recuse from political cases in which there is a clear conflict of interest, PEOPLE NOTICE.
Go have a stroke, you motherfucker.
agingdem
(7,863 posts)welcome to the here and now a callous, cruel, vengeful, hate filled/hate-fueled garbage dump..you say you dont like the stink of distrust, anger, hostility leveled against a court packed with self righteous, self serving political hacks like you and your incompetent deceitful brethren too fucking bad! this is on you..own it
PortTack
(32,803 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,923 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)It sure looks that way to me.
The right wing in the U.S. are nothing short of 1939 nazis.
jaxexpat
(6,860 posts)One man's quest to lower the bar just a little lower.
He's been there so long he actually thinks it's about him.
SuperCoder
(300 posts)By trying to overturn the will of over 70% of the country, and thinking they could get away with it unscathed through a midnight undercover vote.
SuperCoder
(300 posts)In the same vein as Paul Revere.
Only this time, it's the Handmaid's Tale red coats that are coming...
eShirl
(18,505 posts)So he's the leaker then?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Scrivener7
(51,025 posts)And you feel that this makes YOU the victim.
gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)Ginni being paid by Hillsdale college , to get things done from the inside.
tanyev
(42,632 posts)Scrivener7
(51,025 posts)only involved a few flesh wounds.
"Bread dressing, in the bird!" "No!! Cornbread dressing, on the side!"
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)I don't, for a minute, believe this is anything other than a deflection from his wife's (or someone of their ilk's) involvement in the leak. It's just more screaming about the leak, rather than what was in it. Y'all made your bed, now shut the fuck up and lie in it.
Emile
(22,992 posts)Him and his wife should be in jail!
Paladin
(28,276 posts)And take that unspeakable wife of yours with you.
BlueWavePsych
(2,640 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)You've also had plenty of time to repair the damage since then, by recusing yourself to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, or resigning outright because that would have resulted in you pretty much being absent all the time.
Don't complain about reaping shit when that's what you sewed.