Its moot at a 6-3 super-majority
by NJDoubleDomer (2024-03-05 15:20:37)

In reply to: Is Sonia Sotomayor the next RBG?  posted by El Kabong

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Other than Alito, who is an angry Sith Lord, and Thomas, who apparently doesn't own a mirror, there is some faint inkling that 4 of the 6 understand that history has its eye on them. Maybe there will be a step back on dismantling civil rights, such as Miranda and the exclusionary rule. One can hope.

What do you mean by Thomas not owning a mirror? *
by Tex Francisco  (2024-03-06 08:49:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

One succinct reason
by NJDoubleDomer  (2024-03-06 09:48:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

“His entire judicial philosophy is at war with his own biography,” Michael Fletcher, co-author of “Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas,”. told CNN in 2013. “He’s arguably benefited from affirmative action every step of the way.”
For real?
by airborneirish  (2024-03-07 22:51:40)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Have you never heard the man talk?

That's nice of you to tell him how he should think
by manofdillon  (2024-03-06 11:57:30)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

based on the color of his skin. If you've ever heard Justice Thomas speak or read what he's written, he doesn't view affirmative action as the unequivocal boon that you seem to think it is. But I guess he should shut up and do what liberals tell him to do, since they've done so much for him.

And if anything, it was private Catholic education (and his own hard work, he was by all accounts a good student at Holy Cross) that helped him escape abject poverty, not government social welfare programs.

I thought that's what you meant.
by Tex Francisco  (2024-03-06 10:27:56)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

How dare he not toe the line! So very uppity of him.
Even more moot if it becomes 7-2 *
by El Kabong  (2024-03-05 15:24:43)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Yup. Every vote lost for one side has to be clawed ...
by Rocksteady74  (2024-03-05 20:29:15)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

... back in those rare and unpredictable times when the other side loses a justice and your side has the Presidency and Senate.