Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court could be "most dangerous" branch

[Calista241]

Source: Axios

Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday, during rare public remarks at the University of Notre Dame, warned against politicizing the Supreme Court.

Driving the news: Thomas, the court's longest-serving member, said that the justices do not rule based on "personal preferences" and that politicians should not "allow others to manipulate our institutions when we don’t get the outcome that we like," per the Washington Post.

Thomas, 73, also criticized some of his colleagues, without naming names, for veering into the role of politicians, saying that "[w]hen we begin to venture into the legislative or executive branch lanes, those of us, particularly in the federal judiciary with lifetime appointments, are asking for trouble."

"The court was thought to be the least dangerous branch and we may have become the most dangerous," he added. What he's saying: "It is not about winning or losing at the court, it is about the entire country and the idea of this country," Thomas said.

"I think we should be careful destroying our institutions because they don't give us what we want, when we want it."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-dangerous-aeee0246-bd95-4349-af0f-9d3bdb351acd.html

[underpants]

1. I wonder if the presentation was accompanied by videos he brought

What, too soon?

[Champp]

2. Hey Clarence, is that a stinking nugget of Republican bullshit on your coke can?

[4Q2u2]

3. Your being sooooooooooo impartial

leads to Big Business winning over 90% of the cases in front of you.

[durablend]

4. Translated

Thomas, 73, also criticized some of his colleagues, without naming names, for veering into the role of politicians, saying that "[w]hen we begin to venture into the legislative or executive branch lanes, those of us, particularly in the federal judiciary with lifetime appointments, are asking for trouble."

"LIBRULS ARE DESTROYING THE PLACE!!!!!"

[PSPS]

5. Perjurer says what?

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Anything Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Rapey Kavanugh, and Samuel Alito say

[Me.]

6. They Must Be Getting Worried

they showed their hand for all to see by completely ignoring 50 years of precedent.

[empedocles]

9. The very idea of clarence, who admittedly votes his 'feelings' and is not concerned

with precedent, doing such public pronouncements.

'Why Justice Thomas Is Wrong about Precedent

This term Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an important concurring opinion on stare decisis in Gamble v. United States, the case on the scope of double jeopardy. There Thomas rejects stare decisis for both constitutional and statutory cases except in cases where the precedent is not “demonstrably erroneous.”

[not ''demonstrably erroneus'' - Wow. ]

https://lawliberty.org/why-justice-thomas-is-wrong-about-precedent/

[lagomorph777]

34. Yup - I'm happy to see them looking very worried.

They should be. They have ben allowed to steal too much power on behalf of the Fascists. We need to put a stop to it.

[FM123]

37. Exactly! They showed their hand and now want us all to un-see it.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Hey Clarence, you want the Court to be non political?

Resign.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Beat Me To It!

I can think of 2 others for whom that would be appropriate.

[DURHAM D]

8. You know it is bad when the dumbest person to ever serve on the court

makes this observation.

[awesomerwb1]

10. Look in the mirror assh*le

[Midnight Writer]

11. You can predict with uncanny accuracy what Thomas' ruling will be before any evidence is heard.

That is because his rulings are based on his "personal preferences" and political leaning.

A judge that goes into every case with a pre-determined outcome is no judge at all.

How much money has the Thomas family made from Right Wing organizations?

[LiberatedUSA]

16. You can do that with all the justices on party issues.

If the court case is gun related, the only vote you might, maybe need to guess on would be Roberts. If the case is about expanding gun laws in a way the right likes or striking them down, 3 votes will be no and 5 will be yes.

This is why we go through the theater of the nomination process, because both sides want to make sure their pick will vote their goals. If we didn’t care, we would not grill them in such a way that forces them to clam up. If we didn’t care how they would vote, we would not be asking them questions like “what do you think of this or that law” or “if this came before you, how would you vote”.

The entire nomination process is enough proof that accusations of “you just want a judge to vote how you want”, applies to everyone.

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. So that means you won't vote against Roe, will vote to overturn Citizens United and Hobby Lobby,

and then resign for the good of the country there, Justice Oops?

[Ocelot II]

13. Definitely, with him on it.

[Botany]

15. Thomas, "veering into the role of politicians"

Are you kidding me? Does bush v Gore ring a bell Clarence?

BTW isn't getting close to your time to take a dirt nap?

[RobinA]

18. If He's Really

73, he's way younger than I thought he was.

[rurallib]

20. he was only 43 when he was appointed to the Court

seems like he has been there forever (30 years already)

[patphil]

17. This has to rank as one of the most disengenuous statements ever by a Supreme Court Justice.

[Initech]

19. Thanks MAGAs!

[2Gingersnaps]

21. Wow, Noble Prize for lack of self awareness.

Not to be confused with the Nobel, Noble Prize is for a partisan hack married to a batshit partisan hack. How many busloads is she shipping to this "family picnic" in the Capitol?

[Comfortably_Numb]

22. You mean like when your wife is actively recruiting for the insurrection ?

Things like that justice “Long Dong Silver” Thomas????

[LiberalFighter]

23. They seem to reading from the same page.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Such BS from a pervert

He warned against politicizing the Supreme Court??????

Too late. The court is already fully politicized. Maybe he should warn against perverting the Supreme Court. You know, warn against having judges on the court who sexually abuse women or who belong to weird religious cults.

We have every shade of ultra right wing GOPers on the court and now he warns against politicizing?

He"s afraid additional members to the court will break the GOP strangle hold on the court.

[malthaussen]

25. He's not wrong, but who is he trying to kid?

The USSC -- and Mr Justice Thomas in particular -- have been political hacks for years.

-- Mal

[rickyhall]

26. Too late. Talk to Moscow Mitch, the evil turtle. Wake up & smell the burnt coffee.

[stillcool]

27. such a useful tool...

he's like any GOP official. Plug and play. His wife, on the other hand...

Courts & Law
Ginni Thomas apologizes to husband’s Supreme Court clerks after Capitol riot fallout

Robert Barnes
February 2, 2021 at 11:22 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ginni-thomas-apology-clarence-thomas-clerks-trump-rally/2021/02/02/a9818cce-6496-11eb
Conservative political activist Virginia Thomas told her husband Justice Clarence Thomas’s former law clerks that she was sorry for a rift that developed among them after her election advocacy of President Donald Trump and endorsement of the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. that resulted in violence and death at the Capitol
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Thomas has made clear her opposition to the Affordable Care Act, for instance, and other initiatives of the Obama administration. This summer, she tried to get the small Virginia town of Clifton to take down a Black Lives Matter banner. “Let’s not be tricked into joining cause with radical extremists seeking to foment a cultural revolution because they hate America,” she wrote to town leaders.

Virginia and Clarence Thomas attend a state dinner at the White House in 2019. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
She has been a delegate to the Republican National Convention. And after first endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) for president, she became an ardent Trump supporter, meeting with the president at the White House to advise on political appointees. When Trump gathered supporters at the White House to celebrate his acquittal at his first Senate impeachment trial, she was among those invited.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=540

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErLor7lXIAAIJJo?format=jpg&name=900x900

Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence, Cheered On the Rally That Turned Into the Capitol Riot
“GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING!”
BY MARK JOSEPH STERN
JAN 08, 202112:17 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/ginni-thomas-donald-trump-clarence-thomas-capitol-riot.html
On Wednesday morning, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the rally in Washington demanding that Congress overturn the election. She then sent her “LOVE” to the demonstrators, who violently overtook the Capitol several hours later. Two days later, Thomas amended her post with the addendum: “[Note: written before violence in US Capitol].” By that point, five people involved in the insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer, had died.


Thomas, a conservative lobbyist and zealous supporter of Donald Trump, has fervently defended the president over the last four years. On her Facebook page, she frequently promotes baseless conspiracy theories about a “coup” against Trump led by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic hate. Thomas draws many of these theories from fringe corners of the internet, including an anti-vax Facebook group that claimed Bill Gates would use the COVID vaccine to kill people. In recent months, she also amplified unsubstantiated corruption claims against Joe Biden while insisting, falsely, that the Obama administration illegally spied on Trump’s 2016 campaign, then tried to rig the election against him.

In turn, Trump has rewarded Thomas with an extraordinary amount of access to the Oval Office. Her advocacy group Groundswell got an audience with the president in early 2019. According to the New York Times, the meeting was arranged after Clarence and Ginni Thomas had dinner with the Trumps. (Clarence Thomas and Trump appear to be quite friendly: The justice took his clerks to meet with the president in the Oval Office at least once; Ginni attended as well.) At the White House, Groundswell’s members lobbied Trump against transgender service in the military, which he already prohibited in 2017. The ban took effect in 2019, around the time of Groundswell’s meeting, after the Supreme Court lifted lower court orders blocking it by a 5–4 vote. (Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself from the case; he has never recused from any case because of his wife’s lobbying activities.) The New York Times also reported that Ginni Thomas compiled lists of federal employees whom she deemed insufficiently loyal to the president. She sent her lists to Trump, urging him to fire the disloyal employees, though he seems to have largely ignored her. He has, however, stacked his administration with former Thomas clerks.

[tavernier]

38. Wow you can barely see the strings

from her hand attached to his mouth.

[llashram]

28. possibly "most dangerous"

we'll all see, guaranteed

[Casady1]

31. Scalia and Thomas

regularly attended the Koch Brother's getaway. Not like that was a political gathering.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. Politics should not enter into the SCOTUS?

What does he say about Moscow Mitch keeping Scalia's seat empty for a year, denying Obama his constitutional right to appoint a successor? And the GQP's assertion that Scalia's replacement had to have a similar judicial temperament, when TFG shoved RW ideologue ACB into RBG's seat when she died? Nothing about politicizing the Court when that happened, right?

[lagomorph777]

33. "...warned against politicizing the Court." - HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

Good one, Clarence!

You fucking asshole.

[stopdiggin]

35. the words spoken here are essential sound

the messenger is not
----- -----

[JudyM]

36. Theatre of the absurd. How lofty he is.

[RussBLib]

39. Is that a threat?

Here is yet another guy not deserving of a SCOTUS position.

Thomas
Kavanaugh
Barrett

[Mysterian]

40. Says the most lock-step right-wing nitwit political justice ever

in a tie with fascist goosestepper Scalia.