DailyCaller:
Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court 25 years ago this week, yet Thomas-derangement has not abated with time.
Though he has won admirers from all corners of legal and public life, a loud cadre of detractors has long been critical of his work on and off the Court, and the occasion of his anniversary roused yet more — and familiar — broadsides.
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal commentator and writer for CNN and The New Yorker, wrote an essay in which he argued Thomas has had practically no meaningful impact on the Court’s jurisprudence. He wonders: “What’s the most important opinion Thomas has written for the majority during his tenure on the Court?”
“It’s a trick question, in a way,” Toobin writes, in answer to his own question. “Neither Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who presided over Thomas’s first fourteen years on the Court, nor Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., who has run the court for the past eleven, ever assigned Thomas a landmark opinion for the Court.” He continues some lines down; “The truth is that Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write an opinion in a big case that could command a majority of even his conservative colleagues.”
As the Hoover Institution’s Adam White notes in the pages of The Weekly Standard, Toobin has made a cottage industry of heckling Thomas, quick to assume the worst of him where another reasonable observer could by prudence arrive at a different conclusion. In a 2014 piece he lambasted Thomas for declining to ask questions during oral arguments, characterizing his behavior on the bench as “bizarre” and “disgraceful.” Might his silence at oral arguments reflect a courtesy to the advocates, a protest to the one-upmanship of his colleagues? No, Toobin concludes. He’s not just not paying attention.
This is to say nothing of the fact that the central contention of his essay is highly suspect, as White argues in his rebuttals. Legal practitioners took issue with Toobin’s argument as well.
I expect nothing less from anti-Liberty/Freedom, social justice, progressive/socialists, abortionists and anti-constitutionalists.
CNN, New Yorker, New York Times, Black History museum, Democrat Party apparatus, Anarchists/Socialists/Communists, Unions and Planned Parenthood never disappoint.
I expect to hear the same parroted mantra from CBS, NBC and ABC, Huffpo and the rest of the Soros/Clinton bought and paid for progressive media.
Yes the black conservative is stoopid. Not like the “yes massa obama” geniuses Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
Sounds like the court-watching media is populated by racist bigots.
If Toobin is such a preeminent legal scholar what’s he doing on CNN? Why haven’t we seen him set any legal precedents with his phenomenal judicial insight? Why don’t we quote his phenomenal courtroom arguments?
Thomas doesn’t ask questions because he knows the law clerks have done all the research before the case gets to SCOTUS and questioning is just so much showboating.
Anyone who reads Thomas’ opinions clearly sees everything he decides is based on the Constitution as it is written, not on circumstances progressives want to force on citizens to take away their power.
The Left hates Justice Thomas because they tried to Bork him with that false accuser Whatsername and it failed miserably. I’m glad he stuck to his guns and the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary committee at the time stuck to their guns too.
Fuck the Left and their discredited disgusting despicable Socialism.
Liberals are the racists. Always have been.
Toobin, besides being an extreme leftist, was one of Elena Kegan’s fellow law school classmates, and is in love with her (as much as any supposedly straight man could be).