Justice Clarence Thomas Thinks The Confirmation Process For Supreme Court Justices Is Absurd
Don't forget, he called his own confirmation hearing a 'high-tech lynching.'
Justice Clarence Thomas
I think we have decided that rather than confront disagreements, we’ll just simply annihilate the person who disagrees with me. I don’t think that’s going to work in a republic, in a civil society.
— Justice Clarence Thomas, delivering a speech at the Heritage Foundation, and speaking out against the ways in which the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices has devolved, citing it as an example of how the nation’s capital is “broken in some ways.” He never mentioned Judge Merrick Garland’s ordeal in trying to obtain a confirmation hearing, and never referred to him by name.
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