The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015
Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with”, the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has said.
Thomas – part of the conservative supermajority that has taken hold of the supreme court over Donald Trump’s two presidencies – delivered those comments Thursday at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington DC, ABC News and other outlets reported. His remarks preceded the nine-month term that the supreme court is scheduled to begin on 6 October.
“I don’t think that … any of these cases that have been decided are the gospel,” Thomas said during the rare public appearance, invoking a term which in a religious context is often used to refer to the word of God. “And I do give perspective to the precedent. But … the precedent should be respectful of our legal tradition, and our country and our laws, and be based on something – not just something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”
In other words, Uncle Thomas is done pretending he cares about the law
Just a reminder that this fucker sexually harassed Anita Hill for years.
And subjected other colleagues and associates to his porn addiction at the very least.
So wouldn’t this mean that past SCOTUS decisions are irrelevant to new cases? So people could legitimately keep bringing near-identical cases to the SCOTUS level and have a legitimate expectation for them to be decided? That sounds obviously unwise even by current SCOTUS standards.
Mind you, Thomas probably wants to go by a rule of “precedent matters when I say it does”, so consistency is irrelevant.
Don’t forget:
A big reason Thomas is a SC judge is Biden ran a sham confirmation hearing for his “good buddies across the aisle”…
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-anita-hill-women-senate-clarence-thomas-213864
When Biden bitched and moaned about how it wasnt like “the good ole days” is because back then he was at best a useful idiot, if not outright intentionally helping the far right religious extremists who now run the GOP.
Decades of neoliberalism is coming home to roost with trump. A real party never would have let them set all this shit up over the decades.
A lot of words for “I don’t like it”
Clarence Thomas is the kind of man who after spending 12 years a slave would go out and hunt runaway slaves for his own new land.
Why start respecting 200 years of norms in American law now?
When one must make the choice between established precedent or a luxury motorhome, obviously precedent isn’t gospel for Clarence Thomas
"He regularly slips into his speeches his love of driving it through the American heartland — ‘the part we fly over.’
Imagine Clarence rolling up into Gary, Indiana in this thing to see “The Real America”:
Look at you assuming this rapist of Anita Hill had morals and ethics in the first place.
Not like precedent was a large reason for rulings from this court so far.
Ok so how do the citizens pull him out of that office?
Well, we’ve tried ballot box, soap box, and jury box. What’s left?
Pine?
He’s too good for that, fucking plywood
Wicker basket then.
I was going to say cardboard but damn a pier one wicker coffin is probably the worst way to be buried.
NOT THE BEES
This is what the 2nd Amendment was written for…
By the neck.
I have completely lost all confidence in our government.
Fun fact, Clarence Thomas’ reaction to Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained was, “Sam’s getting soft in his old age.”
Precedent is important, but it’s superseded by whether or not the plaintiff has taken Thomas on vacation recently.
Euphemism for " expect some crazy illegal shit to happen"
fun fact: clarence thomas is a tosser. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
