'We were a family': Clarence Thomas bemoans lost trust at the Supreme Court

[turbinetree]

By Bob Brigham
Published May 13, 2022

Controversial Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained that a draft decision overturning the right to abortion was leaked

Thomas made his remarks at the Old Parkland Conference, where he was interviewed by torture memo author John Yoo, Politico reported.

“When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder,” Thomas said. “It’s kind of like infidelity that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it.”

https://www.rawstory.com/ginny-thomas/

You voted to attack and eviscerate the Voting Rights Act....

You voted to let unfettered money buy political power unchallenged the breeds corruption...

And then there is your wife who thinks my vote should be thrown out.....and supports sedition / insurrections.....

[Tomconroy]

1. 2000. When you stopped votes from being counted you nitwit.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

2. What an ASSHOLE!

[orleans]

3. boo fucking hoo to him! nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. Let me guess. He'd be the "uncle" of this so-called family. nt

[jmbar2]

5. And I'm shouting "You are dead to me!"

Get out of my house, you traitor.

[spooky3]

6. Waah! I shot my parents and now I'm an orphan! Poor me! Nt

[Laffy Kat]

7. He can cry me a river and then drown in the tears.

I don't give a fuck.

[herding cats]

8. When you're known by your actions and not just the privilege of your status...

Yeah, that can be uncomfortable if you've avoided it your entire career.

Cry me a river. You've been instrumental in the destruction of our nation as we knew it. He's just having a sad because the spotlight is on him now for his choices. Well, suck it up buttercup. Choices have consequences. Deal. Just like all the rest of us have had to deal with your bad choices.

[electric_blue68]

9. Yeah, buster, your Dullard RW Self "helped" The Court change.

Screw you!

[stopdiggin]

10. ah, yes. the tears are just STREAMING down my cheeks ...

"How? How? Could this have happened, I ask you?"

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Oh please 😒

[Hekate]

12. He was crying on John Yoo's shoulder? John "Waterboard" Yoo?

[Rhiannon12866]

13. From Twitter:

Link to tweet

[slightlv]

26. THIS!!!

Wish I could rec this a thousand times!!! We sure don't keep up with the times, do we? Not enough representatives to represent the people, and not enough SCOTUS judges to represent the court circuits. Did we just stop trying to keep up with the times when greed took over in the late 70's?

[Phoenix61]

14. Waaaahhh... I've been instrumental in screwing over

everyone and now nobody trusts me. Sheesh! If there was ever any doubt he was a narcissistic asshole it’s gone now.

[LeftInTX]

15. ugh!!

[Marcuse]

16. Who put the pubic hair in his Coke?

[Roy Rolling]

17. Ignorance at the Top

One of the symptoms of intellectual exhaustion is when you don’t know what you don’t know.

A Supreme Court justice is supposed to be the smartest person on the law in the United States, top of the class. Statements like this accidentally expose the obvious lack—Thomas complains to the mass media about the lack of his court’s privacy.

You can’t make this shit up.

[Solly Mack]

18. He's coming across as if they are the victims.

That takes some nerve.

[Novara]

28. That's the republican platform...

...we're victims. Never mind that we are bullying the entire country; we're the real victims, waaaaahhhhh.




Gosh, when obviously unqualified political hacks - one of them who LIKES BEER, YOU KNOW - join your ranks, what did you expect? When the country wakes up and sees what you're doing - shattering the very precedents you vowed to uphold - they don't like it. When justices LIE in order to be seated on a bench which is supposedly the highest ethical standard in the land, PEOPLE GET ANGRY. When you refuse to recuse from political cases in which there is a clear conflict of interest, PEOPLE NOTICE.

Go have a stroke, you motherfucker.

[agingdem]

19. Clarence, you sanctimonious prick...

welcome to the here and now…a callous, cruel, vengeful, hate filled/hate-fueled garbage dump..you say you don’t like the stink of distrust, anger, hostility leveled against a court packed with self righteous, self serving political hacks like you and your incompetent deceitful brethren…too fucking bad!…this is on you..own it

[PortTack]

20. You, or should I say your wifeee made this mess...now deal with it...no pity

[Ford_Prefect]

21. He is without a doubt the most bent of personalities among an exceptionally distorted coven.

[C Moon]

22. Does anyone notice that the RW nut heads in SCOTUS have been flipping out since Biden's appointment?

It sure looks that way to me.
The right wing in the U.S. are nothing short of 1939 nazis.

[jaxexpat]

23. Going on 250 years, celebrating mediocrity like no one else can.

One man's quest to lower the bar just a little lower.

He's been there so long he actually thinks it's about him.

[SuperCoder]

24. They were the ones who turned it into a fight...

By trying to overturn the will of over 70% of the country, and thinking they could get away with it unscathed through a midnight undercover vote.

[SuperCoder]

25. The leaker is a national hero...

In the same vein as Paul Revere.

Only this time, it's the Handmaid's Tale red coats that are coming...

[eShirl]

27. "It's kind of like infidelity that you can explain it, but you can't undo it."

So he's the leaker then?

[Roland99]

29. The Manson family...

[Scrivener7]

30. You've taken away the right of 50 % of Americans to their own bodies.

And you feel that this makes YOU the victim.

[gibraltar72]

31. He should have been asked about his wife

Ginni being paid by Hillsdale college , to get things done from the inside.

[tanyev]

32. And what family doesn't have someone with a crazy spouse who helps engineer a violent coup attempt?

[Scrivener7]

33. Well, true. But our violent coup was about who hosted Thanksgiving. And it

only involved a few flesh wounds.

[tanyev]

35. Ha!

"Bread dressing, in the bird!" "No!! Cornbread dressing, on the side!"

[GoCubsGo]

34. Nice deflection there, Clarence.

I don't, for a minute, believe this is anything other than a deflection from his wife's (or someone of their ilk's) involvement in the leak. It's just more screaming about the leak, rather than what was in it. Y'all made your bed, now shut the fuck up and lie in it.

[Emile]

36. What the hell does he have to whine about?

Him and his wife should be in jail!

[Paladin]

37. Thomas: 1. Eat shit. 2. Retire.

And take that unspeakable wife of yours with you.

[BlueWavePsych]

38. Kick

[JHB]

39. You had the chance to nip that in the bud in 1989, Clarence

You've also had plenty of time to repair the damage since then, by recusing yourself to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, or resigning outright because that would have resulted in you pretty much being absent all the time.

Don't complain about reaping shit when that's what you sewed.

[MrsCoffee]

40. And 'We were a Democracy'. Asshole.