Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America - ABC News

[TexasTowelie]

Thomas said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

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I have the same question regarding Clarence Thomas as Orrex has about Trump.

[Ocelot II]

1. And what values might those be, Uncle Thomas?

You wouldn't have been appointed to the Supreme Court according to the values of the new United States in 1776. You wouldn't have even been allowed to learn to read. Progressivism is what got you your job.

[displacedvermoter]

2. The document signed by several dozen slave holders.

I understand what you are saying, I guess.

[displacedvermoter]

4. 41 of them, it seems, were slaveholders

Right wingers always point to the Declaration of Independence as their go to document, over the Constitution. Shrub and his crew always cited the Declaration as justification for whatever they were doing. The Constitution has that nasty Bill of Rights and they hate all but a couple of the amendments.

But yeah, back in those enlightened days of 1776, Clarence might have been lucky and worked as one of the signer's butlers, or he could have ended up a field hand. And nobody would have given two shits for his opinions, either way, on anything, never mind the law.

[sop]

3. But for progressivism Clarence would be a slave.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. That was my first reaction

[Harker]

5. And I have the same answer for that question...

"I hope so!"

[SamKnause]

6. Fuck you.

You are a corrupt piece of trash.

There certainly is nothing supreme about you or this court.

You should be in prison not on the bench.

[Blue Owl]

7. His honor may go fuck himself in that Garden of Dictators

[marble falls]

8. Just shut up, Clarence, you're wife is calling you. She needs another luxury motor coach and a vacation gifting from ...

... one of your "friends".

[jls4561]

13. And Clarence obviously doesn't want to invalidate Loving vs Virginia, and give up old teabag Ginni.

I got mine, screw the rest of you. It’s his theory of jurisprudence.

[Autumn]

9. Fuck that dirty old pervert.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Only among right-wing "Americans" -- who are more "authoritarians" and "plutocrats" than "Americans". nt

[ChicagoTeamster]

11. So does he want to go back to slavery too? The Constitution was meant to be a living document that could evolve

as the country did. That's part of the freedom it is designed to protect.

Conservatives are the ones who the Constitution has fallen out of favor with. They want to restrict other's freedom.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Good. We've got him on the run.

The greatest failure of our democracy was not listening to Anita Hill and taking her seriously enough to stop Clarence Thomas from soiling the reputation of the Supreme Court.

[Stargazer99]

14. The nation is only the rich and powerful? What is destroying the nation is predatory capitalism

[Uncle Joe]

16. It sounds as if Thomas is more focused on the Declaration of Independence than he is of the U.S. Constitution

Article III clearly spells out the S.C.'s job which is to interpret the latter not the former, so is Thomas abandoning his oath to the Constitution?

The Declaration of Independence wasn't a marriage, it was a divorce.

Thanks for the thread TexasTowelie