[G.Mason]

"Thomas did not cite Epstein directly in his opinion. But to anyone familiar with Epstein's writings, the similarities were striking. Indeed, Thomas's argument closely resembled one Epstein had made eight years earlier in ''The Proper Scope of the Commerce Power'' in the Virginia Law Review -- so closely, in fact, that Sanford Levinson, a liberal law professor at the University of Texas, accused Thomas of outright intellectual theft. (''The ordinary standards governing attribution of sources -- the violation of which constitutes plagiarism -- seem not to apply in Justice Thomas's chambers,'' Levinson wrote in the Texas Law Review.)"

I am not amused by this most obvious hit on Justice Thomas. As though all men must have original thought, or none at all.

Perhaps Justice O'Connor and the other Socialists on the Supreme Court, should be made to clearly state references to any and all decisions they make, thereby giving the originators of that thought proper credit, for certainly these justices are marching to a tune written by persons unknown to the Founding Fathers.

Thanks for the ping neverdem, and the article ken21.

I am far from finished reading this, however my red, white, and blue has already been assaulted to the max.

[ken21]

like you, that paragraph stuck out.

the liberals are never going to treat clarence thomas as an equal.

it's really racism.

the democrats wanted a white female or white male "progressive" on the supreme court who would protect the rights of black men.

they didn't want a black man on the supreme court, certainly not a conservative, and most certainly not one of the economic rights of man stripe.