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UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:04 PM Jun 2022

Animus/revenge in SCotUS decisions should be disqualifying. Clarence THOMAS declared 43 yrs revenge.

Add that to the nominees who lied under oath in confirmation hearings.

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https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-051733128.html

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the '90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks he intended to serve on the highest court of the land to make the lives of liberals "miserable," according to a 1993 report from The New York Times. ....

In a conversation with his law clerks two years following his confirmation, The New York Times reported Thomas expressed his desire to serve on the court until the year 2034.

"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years," a former clerk remembered Thomas – who was 43 years old when confirmed – saying, according to The New York Times. "And I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."

Thomas, considered the most conservative justice on the court, joined the majority opinion on Friday which overturned federal abortion protections established in Roe v. Wade. In a concurring opinion, Thomas indicated he also believes the Supreme Court should "reconsider" decisions from the cases Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, which established the federal right to use birth control and legalized same-sex activity and gay marriage, respectively. ....

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Animus/revenge in SCotUS decisions should be disqualifying. Clarence THOMAS declared 43 yrs revenge. (Original Post) UTUSN Jun 2022 OP
This man is an abuser. He rages and does a lot of damage. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #1
Ted KENNEDY and Joe BIDEN tried to stop him. He was Poppy BUSH's gift to us. UTUSN Jun 2022 #4
Damn GOP has been screwing us royally for decades. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #5
So by passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act the Gaugamela Jun 2022 #2
When you have a wife married to a justice that wanted to over throw my vote and millions of others turbinetree Jun 2022 #3

UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
4. Ted KENNEDY and Joe BIDEN tried to stop him. He was Poppy BUSH's gift to us.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:40 PM
Jun 2022

The oh-so-MILD/innocent/sweet Poppy pioneered the Repuke dirty trick of picking nominees from the Dems' Minority constituent groups to break up the coalition a bit and make it whatever bit harder for Dems to oppose.

The Repukes have been doing it ever since, like Shrub trying it with Miguel ESTRADA for the Court, and Alberto GONZALES and Linda CHAVEZ for other things. The BUSHes have a connection to Hispanics, and are pragmatic about USING whatever circumstance for their own advantage.

Orrin HATCH would put on his Shirley TEMPLE pout and ask, "How can Democrats claim to be for minorities and be opposed to Mee-GWELL Estrada?"

See what he did there? He was making a RACIST argument, that Dems should support somebody just BECAUSE of the race/ethnicity. What if it were turned around and be said that somebody should be supported just BECAUSE they were White?

And Dems actually *did* feel put over a barrel, sheepish and having to put on kid gloves to oppose those nominees.

The answer is simple: Mee-GWELL is a *wingnut* - so we'll take him at his word and oppose him *HARD* just on the grounds of wingnuttiness, without reference to race/ethnicity/sexuality.

Gaugamela

(2,496 posts)
2. So by passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act the
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:28 PM
Jun 2022

liberals made his life miserable? Does he think he’d be on the Supreme Court without it? Does he despise MLK?

This guy is arrogant and delusional, and not very smart.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
3. When you have a wife married to a justice that wanted to over throw my vote and millions of others
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:33 PM
Jun 2022

down the toilet....she should be brought before a committee and explain herself.....with him sitting right behind her.....

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