Justice Thomas' Line to the Deepest Bedrock

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Don't shoot me. I found this interesting, completely
new spin (at least to me) on Thomas and his role. I suspect
we are going to hear more of this in coming days.

When asked recently what he thought of Justice Clarence Thomas, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid told Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press," "I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice." Reid went so far as to say that Thomas was "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court" and that his opinions were "poorly written."

Reid's comments came during speculation over the possible successor to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, should he retire soon. Aside from the fact that Reid was disrespectful, we must ask why a Democrat would go on national television and criticize the second black Supreme Court justice in history while praising fellow-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia as "one smart guy"?

Savvy liberals like Reid are right to be more concerned with Thomas than Scalia because Thomas' natural-law jurisprudence represents the greatest threat to the liberal desire to replace limited, constitutional government with a regulatory-welfare state of unlimited powers.

Thomas is one of the few jurists today, conservative or otherwise, who understands and defends the principle that our rights come not from government but from a "creator" and "the laws of nature and of nature's God," as our Declaration of Independence says, and that the purpose and power of government should therefore be limited to protecting our natural, God-given rights.

LA Times

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1. what about this?

But Thomas himself remains defiant. Noting that when justices Scouter, Kennedy and O'Connor proved to be unexpectedly centrist in their rulings, they were described by the media as 'evolving' or 'growing.' Thomas announced to his clerks "I aint evolving." Nor was he planning to give his detractors the satisfaction of an early departure. While there were intermittent rumours that he might step down long before retirement age, Thomas himself vowed on the day of his confirmation, at the age of forty three, that he intended to spend the next forty three years of his life as a Supreme Court justice. It would take that long, he told friends, to get even.

from page 360 of 'Strange Justice' by Mayer and Abramson, Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1994

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2. I don't really know.

It's certainly a different picture of Clarence from the one presented
in the title article. That's why I put it up. What do you think?

[pretzel4gore]

3. when you strip away all the finery

it appears we're being hoodwinked by conmen....watch the puppeteer, not the puppets (the big issue is the election fraud, and the goofy efforts to confound everything by talking about a loser like thomas/kerik/biden in '08 etc is just efforts to buy bushinc some more time)...certainly thomas being black is main consideration in bushinc's schemeing (they want to paint any critic of thomas as racist, but also filling up newstime with this bs)