Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court leak has eroded trust in institution

[mia]

...The leak of a draft opinion regarding abortion has turned the Supreme Court into a place “where you look over your shoulder,” Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday night, and it may have irreparably sundered trust at the institution.

“What happened at the court was tremendously bad,” Thomas said in a conversation with a former law clerk at a conference of conservative and libertarian thinkers in Dallas. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them. And then I wonder when they’re gone or destabilized, what we’re going to have as a country.”

It was second time in a week that Thomas has decried declining respect for “institutions” — he made similar remarks at a conference of judges and lawyers last week.

Thomas says respect for institutions is eroding....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/14/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-leak-roe-trust/

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Clarence Thomas has eroded trust in the Supreme Court.

[Lovie777]

2. You and the other GQP 5 justices already did that before the leak . . .

which was leaked by one of your own. Asswipe.

Overturning the government is one example.

[Autumn]

3. Fuck that openly corrupt institution. If it was gone tomorrow he could beg on a street corner.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. He is either grossly naive or willfully ignorant.

My money is on the latter.

[Orrex]

9. He's playing to his fanbase

Statements like this will benefit his wife financially while also riling up the drooling kkkonservatives who feel that the SCOTUS is the military arm of their war on “woke culture.”

Incidentally, I’m betting that Ginny was the source of the leak and that Clarence knows it, so he’s playing both sides here.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Irony? Hypocrisy?

Obliviousness?

[ymetca]

6. He wonders...

... which seems clear evidence of his advanced stage of cerebral corpulence.

What a fat-head!

[Solly Mack]

7. I watched his confirmation hearing. It wasn't the concept of the SCOTUS that disgusted me.

Same with Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Coney-Barret.

[roamer65]

8. Bush v Gore destroyed any trust I had in it.

[Captain Zero]

10. Does he know Ginni was the Mistress of Erosion on 1-6-21?

Fuck him.

He's the scumbag he was during his hearings.

I liked him better when he kept his fat mouth shut.

[blm]

13. Worse, at this point.

[spanone]

11. The leak?

[samplegirl]

12. His fat lying wife

helped it along!

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Bush v Gore rung a bell.

“We will also never know whether the Republican partisans on the Court would have made the same decision if it had been George W. Bush, and not Al Gore, who needed the Florida recount to become President. But we can certainly make an educated guess.” — Mark S. Brodin

PDF: Bush v. Gore: The Worst (or at least second-to-the-worst) Supreme Court Decision Ever

https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1508&context=nlj

[The Unmitigated Gall]

15. Abandoning precedent...

And throwing settled law in the trash is eroding trust in SC, Clarence.

[2naSalit]

16. Ya don't say!

And thanks for making sure it got there, assbite.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

17. The TRUST of the Supreme Court was eroded way before the LEAK, Clarence!

With the Citizen's United decision allowing Corporation money act as free speech.

Corporations are NOT people.

[gibraltar72]

18. Hey Thomas your wife Ginni

was paid by Hillsdale College, to get stuff done from the inside. But you already knew that didn't you??

[patricia92243]

19. Finding out they were sneaking to force childbirth on women is what eroded respect for

the institution.

[malaise]

20. Let me make it pellucidly clear that

Gin & Tomic and her role in the coup are way more responsible for the state of the SC

[Emile]

21. It wasn't the leak, it's what was leaked dumb ass!

[In It to Win It]

22. Well then, you sir, should retire. I think that would build more faith in the institution

[Norton Nork]

23. What trust is that, Clarence?

Just sayin'

[gulliver]

24. Could be the arsonist complaining about the arson to throw off suspicion

We don't know that Thomas or his wife weren't the leakers.

[LeftInTX]

25. My dad taught me: "Trust is earned", "Respect is earned"

Maybe if you didn't subscribe to medieval opinions with no legal logic

BTW: I assume Clarence would support Dredd Scott?

[lees1975]

26. If Thomas would step down

It would go a long way toward restoring trust, He and Kavanaugh, the sex abusers, both need to go.

[Thrill]

27. Yeah I'm sure it's that. And not your wife trying to overturn

An election. What a prick, this clown is.

[empedocles]

28. 'Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court leak has eroded trust in institution'

thomas says.

[dalton99a]

29. Keep talking, asshole

[BComplex]

30. Now that's rich.

What an imbecile.

[onecaliberal]

31. That ship sailed when the court illegally appointed bush instead of counting all the votes.

[Mysterian]

32. Corrupt republican idiot justices have destroyed confidence in the Supreme Court

Look in the mirror, Clarence, you piece of human garbage.

[Nittersing]

33. Does anyone think "undermining SCOTUS" is the plan?

I keep hearing in my head, "vast, right wing conspiracy" and believe this is just more evidence of that.

He wants to undermine the supreme court.

[Timewas]

34. Eroded Trust

Further

[Grins]

35. Look in the mirror, Clarence!

It started long, long before a little leak! Back to Nixon. Back to Reagan.

But let’s start with this one, Clarence:

“The third, broadly, line of work is deconstruction of the administrative state. ... If you look at these cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason and that is the deconstruction.” - Steve Bannon at CPAC.

Trump had been president for all of 35 days.

Sow. Reap, Clarence.

[yellowcanine]

36. Irony dies once again.....

[Carlitos Brigante]

37. Ya'll know he's gaslighting, right? Him and that alcoholic bag of mayo he married are laughing their

asses off right about now.

[Midnight Writer]

42. Exactly. He is just using the same talking points as RW media. He knows it is all BS.

[LakeArenal]

38. Oh.... Yeah.... Check.... Now what are you, as a justice, gonna do about it.

What might you, as a justice, do to instill trust for American people. Especially women…. We are waiting….

[UTUSN]

39. So, he's trying out a standup routine?

[MissMillie]

40. sure... that's it. It was the leak (/sarcasm)

That guy's gotta get his head out of his a$$.

[Deminpenn]

41. So he's mad at himself and his wife?

just askin'...