Well, at least he's predictable. Too bad for America, though. It was such a nice country.

Geeeez, where is a impeachment proceeding when you really need it. It's about time to get one going, damn the cost.

I think the reason Anthony Weiner was "outed" was because he was the only congressperson who was very vocal about Thomas' conflict of interested regarding him voting on cases involving health care since his wive is a lobbyist for the health industry. I doubt anyone is going to bring this up when Obama's health care reform case gets to the Supreme Court.

Seems to me that Clarence Thomas is doing his mightiest to promote lots of laws that “penetrate the recesses of domestic life, and control, in all respects, the private conduct of individuals.”

How come those opinions stand but health care for all may be judged as unconstitutiona l? Since when is this not "legislating from the bench?"

If nothing else, this story illustrates that even a brilliant, "Beautiful Mind" can be terribly and tragically deranged! It also illustrates just how far back in time this vein of ultra-conservative thought would take us: back to the Dark Ages when it was perfectly acceptable to draw and quarter criminals. Given the extreme religious bent of this political movement, we can probably expect a new inquisition! I'm sure that's what our Constitutional fathers had in mind. I find it sadly ironic, even paradoxical, that Thomas and other like thinkers insist on looking back and further back into history for support of their bizarre interpretations of the Constitution when the framers, themselves, were focused on the future. It is inconceivable to me that such forward looking men intended to create a Constitution that was frozen in time, or worse was regressive. That seems highly doubtful given the personalities involved, regardless of their particular political positions.

Clarence Thomas is the most convincing evidence of the failure of affirmative action. Even though he was a sexual predator, he got soft treatment during his confirmation hearings. Even though he was a lying SOB, somehow the hearings focused on discrediting Anita Hill. And now, even though his wife is getting even fatter and happier and richer as a lobbyist against what our legitimately and honestly selected President is trying to do, He and she will continue their fat happiness. Something's very wrong here.

The notion that Thomas truly believes in a "color-blind" Constitution is laughable since he plays the race card whenever it serves his purposes.

Although the "Obamacare" ultra-compromised bill is flawed as Hell, especially the mandatory insurance part, which is a total gift to big insurance and big brother Rx -and must be as close to being unconstitutiona l as makes little difference-, I've heard nothing better from any of his dedicated opponents in the party of "NO!" -Or indeed anything at all.
And injustice Thomas, that disgusting, stinkingly and blatantly corrupt Quisling for the Right in general and Scalia in particular, should be recalled, fired in disgrace, put out to pasture in a suitable jail and occasionally paraded in chains of his own making in the prison workshop, as a minimum wage stipendary example of how one gets up the ladder on the backs of others in a plutocracy, the stipend to be paid for by those who proposed and promoted the Swinehund for high office in the first place; they can well afford it!
And by the way, isn't it always the right who cry "Foul!" at "activist judges"? Well, look-a-h'yar what we done got with "Uncle Thomas"!
I know that it's all a fantasy of course but it feels good to have such a vision and get it out there once in a while.
Thanks for the forum RSN (I contribute when I have a penny to spare, which is not often these days).

Justice Thomas - if you had been on the Supreme Court in 1862, and you had had to then vote on something like an affirmative action law, would you have voted against it then, too?

The race is on!! Its Russia vs. the USA in seeing how fast the ruling oligarchs can return the masses to their mud huts. It is an example of retrograde evolution where Putin is facilitating the return to Czarist Russia and America's corporate elite (who own the government) returns us to the Robber baron era of our history.

When I visited the Supreme Court, I witnessed Justice Thomas sleep through the whole process. I mean...his head was down, and he was sleeping soundly. He ashed no questions...said nothing. The other eight Justices were actively asking questions of the lawyers in front of them, but Thomas continued to sleep. Shouldn't somebody be assigned to poke him and wake him during a Supreme Court hearing? Maybe Anita Hill would be willing to take on that job.

It is unclear to me that Mr. Thomas is a credible "judge". That he believes he is "right" and all who thought otherwise before him are "wrong" on constitutional law issues is mind boggling. Even more so is the idea that he tries to read the minds of the original framers of the constitution and infer their intent. Since many of them then owned slaves, are black people excluded from constitutional protections? That certainly was their intent. He is the elitist that he despises!

Several here, including Toobin, state Thomas is brilliant and then point out that he is wrong. Is it possible to be brilliant and wrong? In any case, whether Tomas has a flawed intelligence or not, he and his wife are morally flawed.