{"id":425885,"date":"2022-04-02T00:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/clarence-thomas-haters-are-out-to-smear-him-yet-again\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T00:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:35:59","slug":"clarence-thomas-haters-are-out-to-smear-him-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/clarence-thomas-haters-are-out-to-smear-him-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Clarence Thomas haters are out to smear him \u2014 yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39a072ab593\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39a072ab593\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/clarence-thomas-haters-are-out-to-smear-him-yet-again\/#%E2%80%9CClarence_Thomas_haters_are_out_to_smear_him_%E2%80%94_yet_again%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Clarence Thomas haters are out to smear him \u2014 yet again&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CClarence_Thomas_haters_are_out_to_smear_him_%E2%80%94_yet_again%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Clarence Thomas haters are out to smear him \u2014 yet again&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>His confirmation hearing was, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynching. Once on the court, he was allegedly incapable of thinking for himself and was Antonin Scalia\u2019s \u201clawn jockey,\u201d as Emerge magazine shamefully put it. He rarely participated in oral arguments supposedly because, in the words of an attorney at the Georgetown Law Center, he \u201ceither does not care about the cases or can\u2019t compete intellectually with his colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your sensitivity meter doesn\u2019t have to be in overdrive to detect the racial condescension in these depictions of Thomas. Fair-minded legal analysts long ago abandoned this slighting view and have acknowledged the originality, consistency and influence of Thomas\u2019 work. But here come the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and the Democrats to tell us that his intellectually courageous jurisprudence is all about serving the narrow interests of his political-activist wife, Ginni.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the 2020 election, she sent hair-on-fire texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to fight what she believed was a stolen election. This proves, we are told, that Clarence Thomas\u2019 work on the court is corrupt, and he either has to recuse himself from election- or Jan. 6-related cases or be impeached.<\/p>\n<p>The recusal argument is absurd. Ginni Thomas wasn\u2019t party to any election-related litigation. She didn\u2019t write an amicus brief in any of the litigation. She didn\u2019t even give Meadows any legal advice, besides to keep Sydney Powell front and center (a bad idea that wasn\u2019t acted on).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/clarence-thomas-virginia-thomas.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ginni Thomas Clarence Thomas\" class=\"wp-image-21750088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/clarence-thomas-virginia-thomas.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/clarence-thomas-virginia-thomas.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/clarence-thomas-virginia-thomas.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ginni Thomas sent text messages to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to fight an election she believed was stolen. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, Ginni Thomas didn\u2019t have any more or any less interest in election-related litigation than any other Republican who believed President Donald Trump\u2019s claims of fraud, and there were countless millions of them.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of Thomas point out that he dissented when the court turned away a meritless challenge by the state of Texas of election practices in other states. Yes, but the dissent reflected Thomas\u2019 well-considered view that the court shouldn\u2019t summarily dismiss so-called original jurisdiction cases, and he was joined by Justice Samuel Alito, who shares his view. Both Thomas and Alito also dissented when the court turned away a suit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma to prevent Colorado from legalizing marijuana, and in another such case, Arizona v. California.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas dissented, too, from the Court\u2019s rejection of Trump\u2019s emergency <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication to block the release of White House records regarding Jan. 6. In this, Thomas was alone. We can\u2019t know his reasoning, because he didn\u2019t explain himself. Thomas has a robust view of presidential power, though, and it\u2019s not unusual for him to go his own way.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/impeach-thomas-protest.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Impeach Thomas Protest\" class=\"wp-image-21750044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/impeach-thomas-protest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/impeach-thomas-protest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/impeach-thomas-protest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People are calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached over text messages his wife Ginni Thomas sent. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for MoveOn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the 2020-2021 term, Thomas authored more concurrences and dissents than any other justice, including more solo concurrences and solo dissents.<\/p>\n<p>As Nina Totenberg of NPR put it not too long ago, in a passage dripping with disapproval, \u201cHe is the only justice willing to allow states to establish an official religion; the only justice who believes teenagers have no free speech rights at all; the only justice who believes that it\u2019s unconstitutional to require campaign funders to disclose their identity; he\u2019s the only justice who voted to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act; and the only justice to say that the court should invalidate a wide range of laws regulating business conduct and working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But we are supposed to believe that his unexplained sole dissent in the Trump records case must be corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, the respected Supreme Court watcher Tom Goldstein wrote that if \u201cthe measure of a Justice\u2019s greatness is his contribution of new and thoughtful perspectives that enlarge the debate, then Justice Thomas is now our greatest Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/supreme-court.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Supreme Court\" class=\"wp-image-21750127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/supreme-court.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/supreme-court.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/supreme-court.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Supreme Court Justice authored more solo dissents and concurrences than any other justice in the 2020-2021 term. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the day, this latest controversy won\u2019t dent\u00a0Thomas\u2019 formidable reputation as a jurist, but it\u2019s another mark against his perfervid critics that have no decency or scruple.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RichLowry<\/em><em\/>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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