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I assumed that I would not wake up to hear a Supreme Court justice gloat about how much he loves his job in the middle of a rule of law crisis, but we all know what happens when you make assumptions?
Awful thing to say & so flippantly. Freedom of the press was placed in the 1st Amendment to ensure a vocal & active check on the govt (including the judicial branch). But then, this guy & his wife were part of a coup so I imagine he sees the constitution as more a suggestion
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This is very big talk coming from a man whose *silence* has spawned think pieces in an attempt to satiate the, at times, desperate need for an explanation of his quietude besides him sleeping eyes open at the bench. I will say that if it is true that Gullah accent is the reason he’s remained silent for so long, he has done an amazing job suppressing it — Gullah‘s cadence and musicality felt radically absent throughout his good natured vitriol and rapturous laughter at the press’ expense.
You’d think Mr. Thomas would have thicker skin — it takes a lot of heart to dissent 7-2 on a case and argue that repeatedly making sure no black people are part of a jury is just fine and dandy. That said, I would imagine that there is some ground for Justice Thomas to have ill will toward media coverage of him. I wouldn’t like it if this was about me either quite frankly. Or if I somehow managed to make it though the first 25 years of my time on the highest court of the land without a major opinion to my name. Or if the other times the media covers me (when I’m not mocking them) is when I’m lamenting about how a leak that my wife may or may not have done has made my workplace less cozy. Especially if she did do it, that would retroactively charge Thomas’s comparison of the leak to infidelity in ways that the trash ass media would blow up.
And by that, I mean me. I would blow that up so very, very hard.
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