The true Clarence Thomas

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Petoskey News via Yahoo News

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has always been an outlier, chiding his fellow justices, taking a dim view of anything that wasn’t in the Constitution becoming part of the judicial fabric of the country.

And thus as justice Samuel Alito’s authorship of the reversal of Roe v. Wade claimed abortion isn’t part of federal law because there is no mention of it in the Constitution, Thomas declared in his concurrence that the ruling didn’t go far enough, there were other issues the court should reconsider.

Far be it for me to call Thomas a hypocrite, but if you’re seeking to revisit rulings that allow for people to use birth control, have same-sex intimate relations and allow for same-sex marriage, but don’t mention the right to interracial marriage spelled out in Virginia v. Loving when you are Black and your wife is white, well, it sure looks like hypocrisy.

The reversal of Roe puts the regulation or denial of abortions back on the states (some states had laws in place before Roe v. Wade allowing abortion). Immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision states fell all over themselves to be the first to outlaw abortion, with some states looking to reconvene legislatures off for the summer so abortion regulations or denial could be put into place.

While the court suggests the question of abortion should go back to the states and their representatives, it didn’t take long for some in the pro-life movement to begin to try and figure out how to enact a federal ban on abortion.

So much for let the people in the states decide.

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1. Uncle Thomas is so full of hypocrisy if he truly believes...

this:

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has always been an outlier, chiding his fellow justices, taking a dim view of anything that wasn’t in the Constitution becoming part of the judicial fabric of the country.

He should STFU and resign immediately, in fact he should never have accepted his nomination to the court as his presence on SCOTUS isn't mention in the Constitution...well, it is in a way, as three fifths of a man.

Thomas's originalist thinking is glaring hypocrisy, an oxymoron if I ever saw one, a Black man claiming to be an originalist who only believes what's mentioned in the Constitution when a Black SCOTUS justice certainly isn't. The man must be constantly confused and at war in his mind with his own thinking.

[Captain Zero]

2. Ya know Original Constitution doesn't allow a black man on the court.

If you think about it.

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3. Yeah, that's what I said.

[MerryBlooms]

5. I don't get your reply, because that's exactly what brush said.

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4. 💯

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[uponit7771]

6. Alito and Thomas are unlearned men ... maybe even mentally unstable or high or fuckin stupid

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8. The Five Worst Supreme Court Justices In American History, Ranked

In the legal community, Thomas is considered to be one of the worst SCOTUS justices in history

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https://thinkprogress.org/the-five-worst-supreme-court-justices-in-american-history-ranked-f725000b59e8/

5) Justice Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas is the only current member of the Supreme Court who has explicitly embraced the reasoning of Lochner Era decisions striking down nationwide child labor laws and making similar attacks on federal power. Indeed, under the logic Thomas first laid out in a concurring opinion in United States v. Lopez, the federal minimum wage, overtime rules, anti-discrimination protections for workers, and even the national ban on whites-only lunch counters are all unconstitutional.

Though Thomas’s views are rare today, they have, sadly, not been the least bit uncommon during the Supreme Court’s history. He makes this list because, frankly, he should know better than his predecessors. As I explain in Injustices, many of the justices who resisted progressive legislation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were, like Field, motivated by ideology. Many others, however, were motivated by fear of the rapid changes state and federal lawmakers implemented in the wake of the even more rapid changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. It was possible to believe, in a world where factories, railroads, and the laws required to regulate factories and railroads were all very new things, that these laws would, as Herbert Hoover once said about the New Deal, “destroy the very foundations of our American system” by extending “government into our economic and social life.”

But Thomas has the benefit of eighty years of American history that Hoover had not witnessed when he warned of an overreaching government. In that time, the Supreme Court largely abandoned the values embraced by Justice Field, and the United States became the mightiest nation in the history of politics and the wealthiest nation in the history of money.