Clarence Thomas said he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'

[CousinIT]

Who is surprised that this at least partially about aggrieved pricks getting revenge? Certainly more of them than just Thomas.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-told-clerks-he-wants-to-make-liberals-miserable-2022-6?op=1

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks he intended to serve on the highest court of the land to make the lives of liberals "miserable," according to a 1993 report from The New York Times.

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In a conversation with his law clerks two years following his confirmation, The New York Times reported Thomas expressed his desire to serve on the court until the year 2034.

"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years," a former clerk remembered Thomas – who was 43 years old when confirmed – saying, according to The New York Times. "And I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."

Thomas, considered the most conservative justice on the court, joined the majority opinion on Friday which overturned federal abortion protections established in Roe v. Wade.

[dalton99a]

1. Memo to Jesus:

[milestogo]

2. Motivated by hate.

He is one messed up piece of garbage.

[SergeStorms]

39. An absolute perfect...

Trumpanista. That's their raison d'etre.

[paleotn]

61. I don't know any reich winger who isn't

[CurtEastPoint]

3. What on earth could that fucker have to complain about that the ooh so awful wibberulz did to himz

[dalton99a]

4. They took away the Colored fountain and made him use the White fountain

[CurtEastPoint]

7. ooooh... I would not be surprised! Self hating phucker

[Lars39]

8. We exist.

That’s enough reason for his walnut sized brain.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Was he helped by affirmative action?

What was done to him

[viva la]

6. "The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years,"

This shows how twisted his understanding of reality is.

He was born in 1948. In much of the US at that point, he wouldn't have been able to go to public schools. He wouldn't be able to go to public universities. His parents wouldn't be able to vote. His eventual marriage would be illegal.

And it was his fellow African Americans that he's spent his career scorning, and LIBERALS, who changed that so that he could become a lawyer and a judge.

[in2herbs]

18. +1 but I'd add we allowed him to marry a white woman in Loving. nt

[SergeStorms]

41. If you say so.

In my mind the jury is still out on what species she may be.

[in2herbs]

77. lol nt

[sheilahi]

60. hey clarence, clean up your own house before you start in on ours.

Can't help but think that maybe instead of him deciding what women can do perhaps it might be a better idea to take care of that loon he's married to.

[machoneman]

24. And at say 16 years old, in '64 he was lucky not to have been gunned down merely for being black!

Lucky us, I guess....................

[liberalmuse]

9. That there should have disqualified him from being a USSC justice.

What a sad little man who really can be summed up as a pube on a Coke can.

[Initech]

15. How is he still a justice? Fire his worthless ass now!

[oldsoftie]

63. There just aren't enough votes to do it. And likely never will be.

[Galraedia]

51. That and the fact that he's still married to a domestic terrorist

Like damn, a supreme court justice's own wife committed seditious conspiracy to overthrown the elected government and will of the people. You can't uphold the constitution and still sleep next to the woman who threatens the very principles you swore to uphold. He shouldn't be ruling on any case period and needs to be IMPEACHED.

[bdamomma]

83. +1000000

nt

[dixiechiken1]

10. I sincerely hope he lives long enough to see this garbage ruling overturned.

Nothing would make me happier than for us liberals to make him miserable and rub his fucking nose in it. Fuck him.

[machoneman]

23. Better: a massive stroke that leaves him in limbo until he's 100!

[ificandream]

59. That would be the best karma of all time.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Pawn of the BFEE

Money trumps peace is the way of life.

[OMGWTF]

33. BFEE Bush Family Evil Empire

I haven’t seen that one in a long time.

[GB_RN]

35. BFEE...

Bartcop lives!!

🥃🥃✊🖖

[DENVERPOPS]

56. you are dead on accurate with the BFEE

The common theme thru a lot of the past 40+ years was HWBush:

Head of the CIA, then running the Reagan years with Cheney and others, then running his four years with Cheney/and others,
then his CABAL, Cheney/etc running W's appointed years, that's 20 years just to start.
When HW got bounced after one term, he became Chairman of the Carlisle Group which is whole other story.

People talk about the Kennedy dynasty or the Clinton dynasty, they were nothing compared to the HWBush totally corrupt dynasty.

Reagan and W were both "appointed" through corrupt means to get into office........

[irisblue]

38. Alito was nominated to SCOTUS by Shrub in 2005.

From his wiki..."He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006.[2]"

[JanMichael]

48. It is good to jingle people's memories. Just because W paints now doesn't make him OK.

Just because Drumpf made Jeb cry doesn't make Jeb decent either.

[Blue Owl]

12. What a fucking sack of shit

It is he who is miserable

[cloudbase]

13. It says something about him if this

is his self-described metric of what constitutes success.

[Initech]

14. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you, Clarence, with a rusty bayonet!

Don't worry, Satan has a special circle in hell reserved just for you and Ginni!

[Demovictory9]

16. ugly inside and out

[Meadowoak]

22. Have you seen his wife?

[2naSalit]

32. Dead eyes.

The window to where his soul would be if he had one.

[Demovictory9]

73. Agreef..his soul has been dead since he was harassing women pre scotus

[rhiannon55]

67. Those dead eyes!

[DBoon]

17. Are his 43 years up yet?

Satan is waiting to reclaim his soul

[plimsoll]

28. Thanks for that.

For years I thought, "Well if heaven is full of people like you I'm not sure I see the real problem with hell." Now this.

[in2herbs]

19. Whether or not he wants to throw Ginny under the bus I hope the J6 Cte. and DOJ

make Ginny's life not just uncomfortable but miserable for the rest of her life.

[madaboutharry]

20. What a terrible way to live a life.

Filled with nothing but vinegar and piss.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' question to Justice Thomas: "When did you become such a hater?"

[vercetti2021]

21. Liberals to uncle Clarence

Fucking die already and take the other 4 with you

[KentuckyWoman]

25. I hate to break it to Chuckles

He has not done one damn thing to materially affect my life one way or the other. In the big picture he is hardly a ripple.

[plimsoll]

26. I think we honor Thomas and ding Roberts at the same time.

We should call it the Thomas court. Thomas was a cypher the whole time Scalia was there, so you knew he was a piece of work but you never had to actually ponder the stuff he said because he didn't actually say anything. With Scalia gone Thomas has to stick up for his own nefarious views. We should just ignore that Roberts is supposedly the Chief Justice and acknowledge the real leader of that court; Clarence Thomas.

From now on, don't refer to the Supreme Court or the Roberts Court. It's the Thomas court, that way Roberts will be reminded who the real cypher is.

[KS Toronado]

44. "The Clarence Thomas Supreme Court"

Great idea, and since all white supremacists are reQublicOns this should really get under their skin.
Truth be known there's probably some already who want to rid the court of all non-white people.

[llmart]

27. Dear Clarence:

If it wasn't for liberals you'd be picking cotton in the hot sun instead of sitting on the bench.

Fuck off!

[Missn-Hitch]

29. CORRECTION: .....to make liberals' lives AS miserable as theirs.

And they are a miserable bunch.

[SouthernDem4ever]

70. +1000

[gratuitous]

30. What a sad little man

With a tiny little goal in life. But it does explain a lot about his career.

[calimary]

71. What a sad little SCHMUCK.

Well, the tide will turn, eventually. It always does. We may not live to see it. But one of these days, his fondest wishes will be undone.

We won’t forget, Clarence. And you can’t hurt us all, no matter HOW MANY years you’re at it.

This is WAR.

[OMGWTF]

31. JFC on a Peleton -- what an assh0le!

[MarcA]

34. Best for Executives at All Levels of Government to not Enforce his Rulings. n/t

[KS Toronado]

36. Been saying for several years now

the way Rs are stacking the courts with far right judges, we're getting to the point if we go to court for
any reason the first thing the judge is gonna ask is "Are you a R or a D?"

Going forward we need a rule/law which requires any person seeking to become a Judge has to be
approved by The American Bar Assn. Several Rs presently on the Supreme Court were not approved
by the ABA but that didn't stop repug congress critters from voting for them.

These far right judges are helping to turn The United States into a Fascist Government.

[AverageOldGuy]

37. Has he been . . .

. . . sipping Cokes with pubic hairs for 43 years?

[GreenEyedLefty]

40. I wonder why my gentle, sweet mother had to die horribly while this asshole gets to live?

I'm just whinging at the universe here, but it's fucking infuriating

[hadEnuf]

42. If it weren't for liberals, Clarence, you'd have probably already been lynched

for being with a white woman.

Not to mention that you would probably wouldn't have even gotten to tour the SCOTUS, let alone be on it.

This self loathing idiot isn't playing with a full deck, just like his wife.

[Galraedia]

43. If a liberal justice said this about conservatives republicans would call for their head

That statement alone proves that he is not impartial and shouldn't be on the supreme court. His own wife is a domestic terrorist who committed seditious conspiracy to overthrow the duly elected government and will of the people. If he didn't support her decision he wouldn't be married to her. He should be impeached.

[LudwigPastorius]

45. "The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years"

Oh, the misery of being able to vote

The misery of being able to marry a women who wasn't black

The misery of the affirmative action that made it possible for you to go from dirt poor rural Georgia to Yale


Maybe you're just a miserable son of a bitch to begin with, Clarence.

[CaptainTruth]

46. This. He's totally ungrateful.

[rogue emissary]

47. Mission accomplished.

[dlk]

49. Thomas is a deeply embittered old man

And he’s so emotionally immature he sees fit to inflict revenge on the rest of us, and is proud of his corruption, daring us to do anything about it. He is eminently unqualified to sit on any bench, let alone the Supreme Court. If anyone was a candidate for impeachment, Thomas is at the top of the list.

[Hortensis]

50. Thomas's earlier writings especially reveal him to be a black nationalist,

a RW extremist animated by intense racism and animosity toward white people and to the constitution itself. As these quotes illustrate. A really nasty piece of work with extremely flawed character and judgement given a lifetime appointment to our high court.

Someone joked that a black nationalist version of RW extremism at least added "breadth" of ideology to the court, but this court's behaviors suggest he's in effect not all that different from his white RW counterparts.

[AntiFascist]

74. He's also an idiot...

questioning the interpretation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment (in his solo opinion) that basically grant him the right to be in an interracial marriage.

[Hortensis]

75. :) How about personality preferences rather than inability to comprehend?

He may lack the caliber of intellect justices should have, but he "questions" the interpretation because HE IS AN EXTREME CONSERVATIVE WHO WANTS TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY, not because he's too stupid to examine how he could be affected.

[AntiFascist]

76. It's more that he doesn't realize it makes him look like a hypocrite with no principles...

but more likely he doesn't care about that.

[Hortensis]

78. Agree, he doesn't care. Extremists have their own irrational

ways of seeing things, dependent on the extreme dishonesty required to deny truths that prove extremist thinking wrong and to provide delusional support for their views.

Just think what it means that a 43-year-old black man, full of vindictive resentments to justify, could claim that liberals, white of course, had made his life miserable since birth. (!) Not his fellow racist conservatives who would have made him a dirt poor, illiterate laborer unable to vote, at best. .

Always blows my mind to realize anew that this is on the supreme court. And now three more conservative extremists of their own types.

[childfreebychoice]

52. I remember reading yrs ago, that his sister

Was on welfare, and he was upset that he had to buy her a dress to wear to his swearing in. Anita hill, and that incident, told me all I needed to know about his moral core

[Haru]

53. SUPREME CARTEL

There should be another way to select supreme court justices rather than using a political process that we currently have.
Definitely end the lifetime appointments.
Have an ethics requirement.
Many promises broken in the interview process.k
We now have this cartel of judges imposing their will America with no accountability.

[bluesbassman]

54. To be clear; Thomas is not a Conservative.

He is a Republican ultra Right Wing cult member. He may espouse Conservative viewpoints form time to time, but he is primarily motivated by extremist ideology and is a partisan hack. He’s the epitome of an activist judge.

[lildDemz]

55. Revenge

for 43 years.

[jaxexpat]

57. Amazing how such shit manages to float to the top of a "justice" system.

The clod lolls about, the soul of contamination, further stagnating this cesspool of intentional mis-regulation by which we find ourselves stuck. Dwindling under misrule, helplessly plodding, seeking plain paths through thick mists in this, our bleak land of freedom-jargon and blatant charade.
You know, he's crazy. Looney as a rabid squirrel. Any situation he's in, he'll make worse simply by his proximity. A horrid, Gollum-like creature, a barnacle fiercely clinging onto a rotting hull.

[budkin]

58. Clarence puts the "Uncle"

In Uncle Tom.

[kimbutgar]

62. I really want bad karma to come his way

He is an evil pos

[Ziggysmom]

64. Racism has been replaced, to a degree, by partyism as the great hatred in this country.

Now we can hate all races and sexes and backgrounds more easily if we combine them into one big overreaching ism. PARTYISM.

[aggiesal]

65. Doesn't that show a bias? I thought he was supposed to follow the law, not ...

make decisions base on his anti-liberal bias.

[mountain grammy]

66. He is one sick son of a bitch.

[yaesu]

68. The problem is these fascists continue getting away with lying to Congress, supporting the violent

overthrow of our democracy & who knows how many other crimes without being punished. We need a JD that will step up to the plate & do its job.

[SouthernDem4ever]

69. Just proves he is an awful pick to be a justice

It's really sad.

[Ilsa]

72. So he was made miserable by the good works of Liberals.

That's just so fucking sad. This feels like a success story to me.

[Historic NY]

80. He's going to be awfully miserable driving his RV sround with Mrs. Insurrectionist

they make an easily spotted couple thanks to Loving v Va.

[Skittles]

81. he thinks abortion bans affect only liberal women

this is just how fucking stupid he is

[EndlessWire]

82. If this report is correct

then he is not fit to serve on the Court.

His wife, Ginni, is probably in deep doo doo. I don't think the J6 Committee would seek to interview her except to check out facts that they already have. They already know who she emailed and what her purpose was. They might also have a link to Clarence that we don't know about.

Clarence has got to go. Let us impeach him if he will not resign. Let's show him that his 43 years are now up.

Notice how the rest of the Court is absolutely silent? Why are we not hearing from any of them? Did I miss something there?

"This is nothing but a bag of shit!" A line from a comedy bit from someone, brought home by my brother from VN. Nothing changes under the sun, except that we have never before dealt with a SC full of traitors. Well, I guess we can handle that, too.

We may not agree with absolutely everything that the Court says, but taking away stare decisis is a big deal. We can't let this pass, either. Also, Clarence making statements about how he wants to kill other rights, principally gay rights, is appalling, extrajudicial, and extremely bad for the SC.

1-2-3-4, we don't want Clarence anymore!

#impeachclarence

[Kid Berwyn]

84. "Yes but it's really good shit, Mrs. Presky!" -- Firesign Theater

I think it’s from High School Madness side of “Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Plyers.”

[EndlessWire]

86. Yes, it's from Firesign Theater. TY. n/t

[BSdetect]

85. Surely that is an admission of pure bias. He is unfit to be a judge at any level.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

87. The Five Worst Supreme Court Justices In American History, Ranked

In the legal community, Thomas is considered to be one of the worst SCOTUS justices in history

Link to tweet

https://thinkprogress.org/the-five-worst-supreme-court-justices-in-american-history-ranked-f725000b59e8/

5) Justice Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas is the only current member of the Supreme Court who has explicitly embraced the reasoning of Lochner Era decisions striking down nationwide child labor laws and making similar attacks on federal power. Indeed, under the logic Thomas first laid out in a concurring opinion in United States v. Lopez, the federal minimum wage, overtime rules, anti-discrimination protections for workers, and even the national ban on whites-only lunch counters are all unconstitutional.

Though Thomas’s views are rare today, they have, sadly, not been the least bit uncommon during the Supreme Court’s history. He makes this list because, frankly, he should know better than his predecessors. As I explain in Injustices, many of the justices who resisted progressive legislation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were, like Field, motivated by ideology. Many others, however, were motivated by fear of the rapid changes state and federal lawmakers implemented in the wake of the even more rapid changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. It was possible to believe, in a world where factories, railroads, and the laws required to regulate factories and railroads were all very new things, that these laws would, as Herbert Hoover once said about the New Deal, “destroy the very foundations of our American system” by extending “government into our economic and social life.”

But Thomas has the benefit of eighty years of American history that Hoover had not witnessed when he warned of an overreaching government. In that time, the Supreme Court largely abandoned the values embraced by Justice Field, and the United States became the mightiest nation in the history of politics and the wealthiest nation in the history of money.