Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hasn’t asked a question in a decade

[Bucky]

7. He's smart, no doubt, but he's in an intellectual bubble

The fact that he's unwilling to engage Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kennedy, and the appeals presenters in vigorous debate & questioning tells us he's more than just an introvert. He's a political operative twisting the law to a narrow ideology. I don't care if he can spin frivolous arguments into refined legal language or kill it at Sudoku, his intelligence is wasted in his unwillingness to engage. He's a benchwarmer. The fact that he's smart only makes the tragedy of his appointment all the greater. Scalia was a knuckledragger, but at least he made his pro-rule-of-law opponents on the bench hone their arguments.