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Clarence Thomas

Tuesday 30th of April 2024

Affirmative action “Affirmative action” policies do nothing to increase the overall number of blacks and Hispanics able to access a college education. Rather, those racial policies simply redis- tribute individuals among institutions of higher learning, placing some into more competitive institutions than they otherwise  would have attended. … The resulting mismatch places “many blacks and Hispanics who likely would have excelled at less elite schools … in a position where underperformance is all but inevitable because they are less academically prepared than the white and Asian students with whom they must compete.” Clarence Thomas, concurring in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action In fact, all racial categories are little more than stereotypes, suggesting that immutable  characteristics somehow conclusively determine a person’s ideology, beliefs, and abilities. Of course, that is false. … Members of the same race do not all share the exact same experiences and viewpoints; far from it. … Yet, universities’ racial policies suggest that racial identity “alone constitutes the being of  the race or the man”  … That is the same naked  racism upon which segregation itself was built. Small wonder, then, that these policies are leading to increasing racial polarization and friction. Clarence Thomas, concurring in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Everybody's very attentive to those kinds of things. Amy Coney Barrett, denying there's a need for ethical guidelines for Supreme Court justices in cases involving their spouses, weeks after it became known that Justice Clarence Thomas voted in a case involving his wife, just as one expects of him [There is a law specifically prohibiting federal judges from participating in cases involving their spouse. Apparently, Barrett doesn't believe that laws that apply to federal judges also apply to Supreme Court justices.] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Early retirement offer We have a special offer for you tonight: We are prepared to offer you $1 million a year for the rest of your life, if you simply agree to leave the Supreme Court immediately and never come back. This is not a joke. If you watch our show, you know jokes aren’t really our thing. This is real. A million dollars a year — until you or I die. John Oliver's offer to Clarence Thomas,  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Feb. 18, 2024 [Thomas was given 30 days to respond.  Oliver also offered him a new $2.4 million Prevost  motor home to replace the one he bought in 1999 with a $267,000 loan from Anthony Welters, which was forgiven in 2008] © 2024 Kwiple.com
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Political inequality  Four of nine current Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — were confirmed by a Senate majority that collectively won a minority of the popular vote in Senate elections and represented less than half of the American population. And three of them — Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett — were also nominated by a president who lost the popular vote. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the Minority  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I ain't evolvin'. Clarence Thomas  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The new crop [of Republicans] are such foamimg-at-the-mouth Kraken releasers  that Clarence Thomas wants to marry them. Republicans running for office in 2022 portrayed by Bill Maher, April 1, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He says he plans to be rich, says that means more than just a few hundred thousand dollars a year. Clarence Thomas portryed by Legal Times in a profie of him it published in the 1980s [Thomas apparently decided that becoming a judge is the road to riches — or at least to living among the rich — if he played his cards right] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Clarence Thomas, you're the best man walking the face of the earth Clarence Thomas portrayed by his wife, Ginni © 2023 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court [Clarence] Thomas should never have been on the court. Now that we know his wife was plotting the overthrow of the government, he should get off or be thrown off. You can't administer justice when your spouse is running around strategizing for a coup. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, March 26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court It took a lot to … to drive  the Court's  reputation to its historic low. … It took the marriage of a man who needed adulation as a shield against self-doubt and a woman who needed a guru to shield her from ambiguity. It entailed the tribal pride of a little girl in a patriotic sash and the agony of a little boy who just wanted to open a second fucking box of cereal. Kerry Howley, New York Magazine, June 19 — July 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court  We are now dealing with the Thomas court. Jill Abramson, Financial Times, July 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I have total confidence in Justice Thomas's impartiality in every aspect of the work of the Court. Each of the nine judges should feel free to make every single judicial decision they make with total independence and complete freedom, what cases they hear, how they hear them, how they rule,  whether and when they recuse themselves, and whether and when they retire. Mitch McConnell, opposing any ethics standards for Supreme Court justices, including ones preventing them from ruling in cases where they have conflicts of interest, like Thomas, who voted to prevent evidence of his wife's attempts to overturn the 2020 election to be turned over to Congress © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
< Trumpists say Substantive due process … has harmed our country in many ways.  Accordingly, we should eliminate it from our  jurisprudence at the earliest opportunity. Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case the Supreme Court used to overturn Roe v. Wade [Substantive due process refers to rights that are not specifically mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment, but nevertheless have been the basis on which the Court has affirmed various privacy rights, such as the rights to use contraceptives, engage in homosexual acts, and marry someone of the same sex] © 2022 Kwiple.com