Clarence Thomas Warns Against SCOTUS Becoming Too Political and the Hypocrisy Is Mind Numbing

In rare public remarks, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a Notre Dame crowd, "I think the court was thought to\u00a0be the least\u00a0dangerous\u00a0branch, and we may have become the\u00a0most\u00a0dangerous."pic.twitter.com/EHK2pEGWdB

— The Recount (@The Recount) 1631878633

Clarence Thomas, whose rulings in key cases mysteriously always conform with his political and partisan preferences, says the justices do not make decisions based on politics. Hahahahahahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-clarence-thomas/2021/09/16/d2ddc1ba-1714-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html\u00a0\u2026

— Norman Ornstein (@Norman Ornstein) 1631844853

Thomas is speaking out against something he is actively doing.https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court/index.html\u00a0\u2026

— Molly Jong-Fast (@Molly Jong-Fast) 1631877778

Clarence Thomas didn\u2019t seem too worried about \u201cdestroying our institutions\u201d when he cast the deciding vote to make Bush president in 2000 or to gut the Voting Rights Act in 2013 or when he sat silently from 2017-2021 as Trump trashed our institutions.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-clarence-thomas/2021/09/16/d2ddc1ba-1714-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html\u00a0\u2026

— Keith Boykin (@Keith Boykin) 1631856757

Indeed.\nAs in Citizens United v. FEC and every other case in which the Court has overturned laws restricting money in politics.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas says judges are 'asking for trouble' when they wade into politicshttps://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court/index.html\u00a0\u2026

— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1631877971

Absolutely ludicrous for Clarence Thomas to say he is worried about \u201cdestroying our institutions\u201d when his wife encouraged the domestic terrorists who attacked our Capitol in an attempt to murder the Vice President and Speaker of the House.pic.twitter.com/GcJKrOreOT

— Kaivan Shroff (@Kaivan Shroff) 1631849063

Justice Thomas claiming that the Supreme Court isn\u2019t political is nonsense and we all know it. FWIW, whenever I teach Constitutional Law and students go, \u201cWho in the hell would write that opinion??\u201d the answer is invariably Clarence Thomas.

— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@Miranda Yaver, PhD) 1631845660

Justice Thomas warns that we should all revere and respect the Supreme Court as it allows the violation of Constitutional rights via bounty hunterhttps://twitter.com/amarimow/status/1438643679435149314\u00a0\u2026

— Judd Legum (@Judd Legum) 1631885000

The Supreme Court is illegitimate and nothing more than a mini Congress without the accountability. There\u2019s as much \u201claw\u201d being practiced in that court as there is among a population of rabid bats in a collapsing cave.

— Walter Shaub (@Walter Shaub) 1631882440

Republicans hijacked the Judiciary by stealing two Supreme Court seats.\n\nAnd now they want us to respect illegitimate decisions from these people?\n\nGet lost.

— Hakeem Jeffries (@Hakeem Jeffries) 1631592000