Did you mean to say Scalia instead of Thomas?
Im sorry if I offended you concerning Thomas.
Regardless that Thomas and Scalia are supposedly the good guys on the Supreme Court, their imprecise references to the Constitution and case opinions is undoubtedly not helping low-information voters get up to speed with the federal governments constitutionally limited powers.
The problem with judges and justices saying merely that a given issue is constitutional or unconstitutional for example, is that low-information voters are going to take their word for it regardless of what the Constitution actually indicates about an issue.