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MSNBC contributor Joy Reid referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as Uncle Clarence, invoking a racial slur during an early-Wednesday panel on the election.
The panel, led by anchor Rachel Maddow, was discussing the possibility that legal challenges to vote counts in crucial swing states would end up in the Supreme Court. Republican senators managed to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Court last week, cementing a 6-3 majority of conservative justices.
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If somehow vote counts are legally challenged and cases end up in the Supreme Court, do any of you guys trust uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law? No! Reid said, repurposing the Uncle Tom slur against Justice Thomas. I mean, it is a completely politicized Supreme Court, [and] you cant just trust that theyre going to do the right thing.
Reid has a history of controversial remarks, including homophobic statements and supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories. In September, Reid also lashed out at Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron by saying he put his party before his identity as a black man.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-joy-reid-labels-justice-150310965.html
I don't think she's the first to make that kind of inference to Thomas.
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)But, ya know, I'm just supposing. IMO, if the "shoe fits," but I just refer to Clarence and his "lovely" wife as deplorable in every way.
VA_Jill
(9,852 posts)I call him something else. If I call him anything.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The Supreme Court as currently constituted keeps drifting further and further from the letter of the law to reach conclusions and rulings that suit them and their antinomian ways. Whatever a Democratic Congress enacts, the Supreme Court is there to nullify it with some outré interpretation courtesy of the Federalist Society.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I was opposed to the nomination of Thomas and have no respect for him or his wife.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)I'm fully behind Reid here.