Justice Thomas slams cancel culture, 'packing' Supreme Court

[AZProgressive]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said he’s concerned efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices may erode the institution’s credibility, speaking Friday in Utah at an event hosted by former Republican U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch’s foundation.

Thomas, the most senior justice on the nine-member court, said he often worries about the long-term repercussions of trends such as “cancel culture” and a lack of civil debate.

“You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the court. You can cavalierly talk about doing this or doing that. At some point the institution is going to be compromised,” he told an audience of about 500 people at an upscale hotel in Salt Lake City.

“By doing this, you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if they’re going to have civil society,” Thomas said.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-utah-salt-lake-city-1887c7066a9dc3293099ddb15fdfdc9f

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Without ONE CLUE about how fucking ironic that is.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Exactly

Complaining about packing the Supreme Court is like complaining about the “transfer of wealth” the right always bellows when higher taxes are mentioned.

BOTH of those things have already happened.

[Botany]

3. " Justice Clarence Thomas said he's concerned efforts to politicize the court"

Does bush v Gore ring a bell Clarence?

Does Citizen United ring a bell Clarence?

Does overturning vaccine mandates ring a bell Clarence?

Does the Judicial Crisis Network ring a bell Clarence?

Does overturning large parts of the 1964 Civil Rights act ring a bell Clarence?

[cloudbase]

4. Clarence:

"I'll have to ask Ginni and get back to you."

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Name a regulation the Ruspublicans haven't voted to cancel

[Ocelot II]

6. Irony is dead. He worries about people losing respect for the Supreme Court?

Dude, that ship has sailed way over the horizon... And his own wife, a conservative activist for years, is smack in the middle of the whole MAGA Stop The Steal bullshit, and is obviously the most significant conduit for right-wing ops directly to the court. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html

Just fuck that guy.

[Solly Mack]

7. The dolt! The ass! The nincompoop! "Fell!" cried the wastrel insufferable stoop.

No mirror shall he pass o'er, that bares the rot of his true core.

[Cha]

8. FO Fascist Activist Thomas & his

Fascist Fuck of a wife Ginny.

💙💛

[Initech]

9. Obviously trying to score points with Fox News viewers, I take it?

[Bristlecone]

10. More gaslighting. The minute this guy was sworn in

That court stepped closer to compromise. He us a clown.

[MOMFUDSKI]

11. "may erode the institution's credibility" is

a sick joke. The only way to even try to right this ship is to ADD folks to the court.

[alwaysinasnit]

12. He actually thinks most people respect the SC. That is one heck-of-an ivory tower.

[ymetca]

13. Wow, all the buzz words

so his wife can continue to suck at the teat of the Koch bros.

Also, it amazes me how they can keep pretending the Supreme Court has ever been anything but political.

He makes the argument for "court packing" that much more viable.

These so-called "originalists" are really becoming tiresome with their hubris. Indeed, an increasing threat to the "civil society" they imagine they are maintaining.

What's "civil", pray tell, about allowing States to post bounties on pregnant women?

[RAB910]

14. Fuck that anti-American traitor

[Midnight Writer]

15. How much does he charge to defend the "integrity" of the Court at his public events?

[CousinIT]

16. THAT ship already sailed. That damned court has had no credibility for DECADES

due to REPUBLICANS PACKING IT WITH POLITICAL OPERATIVES.

The institution IS ALREADY COMPROMISED. And the fact that HE was sat on that court is a big part of that.

[Hekate]

17. All you guys said everything I wanted to say

[maxsolomon]

18. It was HIS APPOINTMENT that heralded the erosion of the institution's credibility.

Unqualified, serial sexual harasser.

Not that it wasn't full of shit before...

[JHB]

19. Justice "What 'Conflict of Interest'?" speaks

The rest of us are worried about the long-term repercussions of trends such as packing the courts with "conservatively correct" judges via explicitly ideological judicial organizations like the Federalist Society, and the Republican Party's outsourcing of vetting and the Senate's advise and consent responsibilities to such unreservedly partisan organizations.

[Irish_Dem]

20. He is so narcissistic, he cannot see he is in part responsible for the tarnished image of the SC.

[WhiteTara]

21. The only good thing about Alito

was that he kept Thomas from talking.

[electric_blue68]

22. Baaaahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! 😑 😑😑