Thomas mulls case about Obama's birth certificate
Clarence Thomas.
What can I say about this man. When Bush 41 appointed him, I thought 41
was being cynical. I believe Justice Marshall, from all outside
appearances felt Thomas did not measure up to the bench. After all
drama during the confirmation, I really came to dislike him more than a
person should be allowed to dislike another person. His judicial
philosophy is vindictive at best. David Souter and I believe the New
Jersey Supreme Court dismissed this silly case.
Poor Ol' Clarence Thomas, what a big time asshole!
Poor Ol' Clarence Thomas, what a big time asshole!
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December 6, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great column. Thanks for pointing it out. One good quote among many in this piece:
December 6, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every legal scholar I have read on this issue say the case has no merit. Bringing one to the conclusion, Clarence Thomas is no legal scholar.
December 6, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Justice Thomas is an embarrasment.
December 6, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pithy truth.
December 6, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. Barrels and barrels of pith.
December 7, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now you've made me laugh!
December 7, 2008 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have to find some other synonyms for irony. Keyes is one of the plaintiff's in the suit. The entire Supreme Court of the United States has to decide if it wants to decide a case on a special list. Any Justice can put a case on the list for consideration. Four have to agree the case should be decided and it is pretty clear that not enough votes are available for a fiasco like this. In 2000, of course, the Supreme Court elected W president.
Now, Justice Thomas sometimes reminds me of Chapelle when he plays a blind black guy in the South who thinks he is white and joins the KKK.
But, I wonder how many people know that a citizen of the United States can be imprisoned in a mental health ward for up to 72 hours for 'observation' on the say so of a family member and much longer with the signature of a physician who has probable cause that the individual is mentally deranged to the point that he or she is likely to do damage to their person or other persons?
Now there have got to be people out there with M.D.s, after reading some of this guy's opinions, who would have to agree that Justice Thomas is a danger to himself and others.
As a matter of fact I am going to send this comment to the AMA right away.
December 6, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
You couldn't hardly make this shit up.
Might expect this kind of crap from Judicial Watch or Swift Boat not-so-swift Vets, but from a Justice of the Supreme Court? GHWB must be feeling mighty proud of his legacy these days. In fact, Thomas is an embarrassment to us all.
December 6, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
AJ Thomas is a piece of work, SJ. In a Tinker type school speech case two years ago, he did something that justices often do in their opinions or concurrences, he signaled the lower courts that he was open to a theory testing. In this case it was re-opening the issue of the limits of corporal punishment allowed in schools.
It is not well known, that Thomas has been a force moving Scalia even more rightward than Scalia was prepared to go. One of the horrors that has now been averted (for the moment) is that by Obama's election we will not get another "constitution in exile" type up on the Court to join Thomas's worse excesses. I was petrified that Janice Rogers Brown would replace one of the ailing liberals. She was sent to DC Appeals to "season" waiting for elevation to the court and we are very lucky she didn't get the nod instead of Alito last time.
December 6, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit, Lux! The vision you left me with of Thomas as school headmaster with a razor strap in his hand sent a chill down my spine.
I'm not really very religious, but I'm somewhat amazed at times that things like selection of SC Justices appears to be more Providential than Presidential. For example, who knew that Suter would be as liberal as he has become, and yet just how terrible a situation would we be in now if he were aligned more closely with Thomas, Scalia, Alito, etc., as I would have expected at the outset?
That being said, I've never been one to put all my faith in God.
Supreme Court considerations underscored most of my anxiety over this last election. The Republic and our Constitution have suffered such major abuse as it is these last years that I'm not sure we could have afforded the choice(s) that would have been foisted upon us to fill upcoming SC vacancies. And I expect even God would have turned his back upon us had we stayed the course of GOP rule, saying there is only so much He can do.
This was reinforced for me in spades when I saw "Maverick" McCain fold at the first test of his "independence" in such matters when he appointed Palin as his VP candidate. Bearing witness to THAT cowardly act of obeisance before the mullahs of his Party left no doubt that, with McCain as President, we could expect Janice Rogers Brown to be among the most progressive choices he would be allowed to nominate.
Much has been said about the seemingly pollyanna sense of hope that has been engendered with simply the election of Obama absent a full understanding of exactly how progressive his administration might be. For myself, just the act of robbing the GOP from its ability to nominate upcoming Justices for the SC is reason enough to celebrate mightily and to sleep better at night.
December 7, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Its amazing to me how this crap is still floating around. It makes me wonder what the energy spent on this issue could have been used for.
December 7, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let conservatives work themselves into a frenzy about this. Who cares.
ARGville: nibble, nibble
December 7, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I feel we have entered the conspiracy zone. Thomas wants to expunge race from law and public policy decisions, which, by itself, is not a bad thing. However how to expunge it only from law and public policy decisions when it's coded into our history. Jeez. A whole war was fought about it. A whole network of trade was established to profit from race as a fact. Nice that Thomas sees it as a construct, but what of our history?
What a nitwit.
Rec. It it will let me...
December 7, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink