“It’s a national disgrace,” Thomas said. “And from my standpoint as a black American, it is a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.”
“And it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order this is what will happen to you,” Thomas said.
'If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.'
you can play the 7 minute interview.
:MARTIN: And finally, can I just ask - Carl, did you ever figure out why it is that Republicans that have been so much more successful than Democrats in making elections a referendum on the courts?
HULSE: Abortion. Abortion.
MARTIN: Really?
Let's see, when discussing who put whose thumb on the scale, let's consider on the one hand:
Dred Scott
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Court packing scheme
Japanese internment
The Borking of Bork
The Borking of Thomas
The borking of Cavanaugh
Against which we have:
Mitch McConnell refusing to take up a lame-duck confirmation.
Mitch McConnell abolishing the filibuster of Supreme Court nominees.
Well, it's a difficult weighing process but, I guess I'll go with Mitch on this one.
An appointment who remains conservative AFTER confirmation is a political partisan.
SCOTUS Justices need to obey the constitution as written. Period.
The REAL partisanship started with Robert Bork. With his “Borking”, the Democrats figured out that they could prevent solid conservatives from senate confirmation. They later found out that the wimpy Republicans were not nearly so organized and that they would avoid similar confrontations and allow Democrats to nominate radical liberals on the court. This meant that Democrats would gain radical liberals in the court, while republicans would only gain mushy moderates. It took Trump to stop that.
Now that the Left is near to losing their grip on the Supreme Court, they have decided that the confirmation process is too political. Boohoo! Turnabout is fair play. They made the Supreme Court into a sort of super legislature composed of elevated philosopher kings little subject to traditional judicial restraint and constitutional precedents. The Left deserves to suffer the consequences as the Court turns to the right and undoes decades worth of their handiwork.
It was not Thomas’ finest hour. Did he think Bork was black? Or any other pick who was considered conservative? He was not attacked because he was black.
It started in earnest with Teddy Kennedy’s decision to bork Robert Bork.
Not that I believe for a moment that this book deals honestly with that fact.
It started with the Dems borking Bork.
And the fact that NO ONE is reporting is this: if the citizens had wanted Merrick Garland sitting on the SCOTUS, they would’ve voted Hillary in. Period.
They keep misspelling "assassination".
I think this is backwards. I think the Supreme Court’s decisions since 1948 when they elevated non-belief in God to the same level as belief in God has led the demise of our entire system. It’s all over but the shooting. You can’t have a Bill of Rights acknowledging “Nature and Nature’s God” and a national motto that “In God We Trust” if the people who don’t believe it are allowed to silence the people who do believe it. But that’s exactly what has happened, largely through the radical destruction of traditional marriage and private property, which the SCOTUS played a large part in since the early 60s.