Thomas Gives Crazy Reason for SCOTUS to Tear Up Settled Law

[Jilly_in_VA]

Justice Clarence Thomas is finding increasingly creative ways to justify reshaping long-standing laws.

During a rare appearance at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the George W. Bush–appointed justice said the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent, arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,” ABC News reported.

Thomas, 77, reasoned that some precedents were simply “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”

“At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis‚" Thomas said, referring to the legal principle of abiding by precedent. “And it’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-gives-bonkers-reason-for-scotus-to-tear-up-settled-laws/

This corrupt ole cane toad must be impeached!

[J_William_Ryan]

1. Thomas was appointed by George H.W. Bush

Like most on the authoritarian right Thomas has long been an enemy of the rule of law and constitution.

[struggle4progress]

2. Stare decisis provides a predictable and stable legal environment

so the changes in the law usually occur slowly, rather than being sudden; it attempts to respect the experience and wisdom of people who came before

Ideological nitwits like Thomas believe they can craft workable solutions to real-world disputes by studying their own navel lint, instead of examining actual facts in context

[crud]

3. We are so fortunate

that this brilliant man ignores precedent, and declares the criminal in the Whitehouse all powerful. Such a fine brain he has, so smart to take a fresh look at our constitution and ignore it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Further,

he is corrupt as hell, and there's proof of it if anyone even cared to look. Oh, and he liked like a rug in his confirmation hearing too. Two reasons for impeachment.

[johnnyfins]

5. ROTTEN to the core.

Another degenerate.

[republianmushroom]

6. roberts court is such a disgrace.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Projection - that's exactly how they are operating...

Someone comes up with some crazy idea and others go along with it, regardless of established law or public opinion.

[andym]

8. The precedents were made by justices who were orangutans according to Thomas, speaking metaphorically

"Thomas, 77, compared his Supreme Court colleagues to passengers on a train, and said: ”We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it’s an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it’s a train.”

[karynnj]

9. He was appointed by GHW Bush not W.

He's been there since the early 1990s.