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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClarence Thomas upbraided for his lowered level of discourse
pundit -- (checks notes) -- David Brooks then points the finger straight at Antonin Scalia as the root of the problem. I guess the ghost of Nancy Reagan is clutching her pearls.
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Clarence Thomas upbraided for his lowered level of discourse (Original Post)
misanthrope
Jul 2023
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Thomas devoted 6 pages of his 58 page concurrence to attacking Jackson's dissent..
Princess Turandot
Jul 2023
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UTUSN
(77,795 posts)1. Anybody with upbraiding POWER?!
Princess Turandot
(4,930 posts)2. Thomas devoted 6 pages of his 58 page concurrence to attacking Jackson's dissent..
It has a near mocking tone to it, especially the way he keeps referring to her by name. He effectively accuses her of discriminating against Asians, and seems to suggest in one of his hypotheticals that she would discriminate against - wait for it - a grandchild of Holocaust survivors.
And what about members of the numerous other racial and ethnic groups in our Nation? What about Anne, the child of Chinese immigrants? Jacob, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors who escaped to this Nation with nothing and faced discrimination upon arrival?
Then there's this:
JUSTICE JACKSON then builds from her faulty premise to call for action, arguing that courts should defer to experts and allow institutions to discriminate on the basis of race.
Make no mistake: Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will tell us [what] is required to level the playing field among castes and classifications that they alone can divine.
Make no mistake: Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will tell us [what] is required to level the playing field among castes and classifications that they alone can divine.
Thomas, Toga-boy in good standing of the Bohemian Grove, is of course quite familiar with privileged elites.
If interested, his Jackson 'critique' begins on pdf page 97, as section B. (The pdf includes everyone's 'contribution'.)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
misanthrope
(9,641 posts)3. He learned quite a lot being Scalia's near-about sidekick
Part of it was the tone you and the aforementioned Brooks noted.
The other lesson was something even seamier.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-ethics-laws-violations-antonin-scalia.html
Hekate
(100,133 posts)4. Brooks & Capehart were both splendid in their denunciation tonight
hlthe2b
(114,751 posts)5. Geez. When did David Brooks get a "clue?" He was spot-on, but unexpectedly...
Still, kudos!