Clarence Thomas's long fight against fair and democratic elections

[babylonsister]

Clarence Thomas’s long fight against fair and democratic elections
Like wife, like husband.
By Ian Millhiser Mar 29, 2022, 7:00am EDT



We now know that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, spent the weeks after the 2020 election cheerleading the Trump White House’s efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in that election. One detail we do not yet know, however, is what Justice Thomas knew about his wife’s communications, and whether he tried to use his office to protect her.

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But here’s the thing: Yes, Thomas’s vote in this case, Trump v. Thompson, may have been an underhanded effort to protect his own wife. But his vote in Trump was entirely consistent with his record in cases where his spouse does not have a personal interest.

In more than three decades on the Supreme Court, Thomas has consistently voted to make it harder for many Americans to have their vote count; to erode institutions, like a free press, that are essential to democracy; and to dismantle nearly a century’s worth of democratically enacted laws on spurious constitutional grounds. Thomas’s opposition to democracy is not rooted in nepotism. It appears to be quite principled.

Among other things, Thomas is the only sitting justice who voted to install a Republican president in Bush v. Gore (2000) — although three other current justices were part of Republican George W. Bush’s legal team in that case. Thomas would allow Republican administrations to deactivate the entire Voting Rights Act so long as they are in power. He would strip journalists of First Amendment rights that allow them to safely provide critical coverage of government officials. And he would invalidate a long list of laws including the federal bans on child labor and on whites-only lunch counters, based on a widely rejected reading of the constitutional provision that grants Congress most of its power over the private sector.

No matter how the scandal with his wife’s texts shakes out, it’s worth remembering how the Court’s longest-serving justice would shape the world. In Clarence Thomas’s America, elections would be skewed so heavily in the Republican Party’s favor that Democrats will struggle to ever gain power. And if Democrats somehow do manage to squeak into office, Thomas would ensure that they cannot govern.

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https://www.vox.com/2022/3/29/22999755/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-voting-rights-democracy-elections-ginni

[Blue Owl]

1. Fair elections got long-donged by "Justice" Silver

[Hoyt]

2. Unfortunately, Thomas represents/satisfies a significant portion of our population.

Probably not close to majority, but certainly more than 1/9.

[njhoneybadger]

3. Self loathing freak would burn the whole country down to avenge for his conformation hearings.

Supreme Court Grudge

[demtenjeep]

4. and he is protecting people that would just as likely refuse him the vote if he were not a judge

f'n asshole

[jaxexpat]

7. Crazy asshole. Unstable troll. Psychotic pervert.

Thoroughly unsavory character. Standout in a crowd of Republican mental case bad guys and gals.

[msfiddlestix]

5. He's just doing the bidding on behalf of the Federalists Society.

I really believe we need to put the lion's share of onus where it belongs, Thomas is just doing their bidding.

and now he's in a position of the majority on the court. all or most federalists nominees I believe.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. So Clarence was a sleeper SCOTUS Justice, ready to activate when conditions were right

[Skittles]

8. ugh

like with Trump, there is no bottom to Clarence Thomas' depravity

I cannot even IMAGINE what the results of a mental health evaluation of that freak would be.

[Cha]

9. Yeah a fucking POS Fascst.

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