Everybody in this thread, please accept my apology if my remark about Justice Thomas offended you.
Note that the reason that I reference Thomas Jefferson’s writings about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers a lot more than I reference similar writings by James Madison is this. Jefferson tended to better quote the wording used in the Constitution imo, while Madison got a little bit too flowery at times. And that makes it a little more difficult to connect Madison’s paraphrasing of the Constitution to the Constitution imo, particularly when many low-information voters have been taught PC interpretions of the Constitution.
I clearly have same issue with judges and justices who don’t SHOW ME references to specific constitutional clauses and quote wording from case opinions.
Again, I tell such judges that’s fine if you say constitutional or unconstitutional. But please justify thumbs up / down with precise references to Constitution so I know that you’re not trying to pull a fast one. (I still cannot figure out how post-FDR era justices referenced clarification of Commerce Clause in Gibbons to justify PC interpretation of Commerce Clause in Lopez.)