It won't be long before he will be in the trenches with the rest of us.
Posted on 11/15/2005 9:48:59 AM PST by metalmanx2j
As Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito prepares to go before the Senate in January, Justice Clarence Thomas has blasted the confirmation process for new members of the court.
In a question-and-answer session at the University of Alabama School of Law, Thomas told students and other audience members the process is so intense that federal court judges turn down the opportunity to serve on the Supreme Court, and said the confirmation procedure should be "scaled back."
During Thomas' own confirmation hearings he had to wage a bitter battle - with former colleague Anita Hill accusing him of sexual harassment - before he was confirmed by a 52-to-48 margin.
Thomas also made these comments during the Q & A session, according to a report in The Crimson White, the University of Alabama's newspaper:
The courts are being "held hostage" by the issue of abortion, which has been at the center of every confirmation hearing since Roe v. Wade.
The personal lives of Supreme Court nominees shouldn't be thoroughly bared during the confirmation process.
The Senate votes for people who make decisions for or against their interests, instead of deciding whether they are capable of interpreting the law.
During his own confirmation hearings, he was the victim of a "high-tech lynching" by people who were supposed to be his friends.
Fears of "judicial activism" on the court are unwarranted.
When asked about religion and government, Thomas said the separation of church and state couldn't be found in the Constitution.
Justice Thomas ping!
I can't wait to hear the lefts rantings on this truthful statement. How long before the DUmmies call for Thomas to be impeached?
I'm not wild about Thomas, but I believe he has a valid point. The confirmation hearing has nothing to do with selecting good justices. It is abusive and a sick display of political arrogance by the Democrats who have corrupted the process.
Let's get the whole quote...
Thomas described his own overheated confirmation process as "a high-tech lynching of an uppity black who deigns to think for himself."
Here's to Clarence Thomas living to be as old as Justice Stevens.
There - much better.
There's a pubic hair in my coke.
It won't be long before he will be in the trenches with the rest of us.
Drinking problem? ;-P
Nice to see Thomas getting involved in highlighting these grandstanding lynching squads in the U.S. Senate. he knows better than anyone, saving Bork, what these cretins are capable of.
Shhh. Be quiet, or all the customers will want one.
That oughta get you ten years : )
We all HAVE one!
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