Nothing Says 'Impartial Judge' Like Clarence Thomas Publicly Making Fun Of The Press

After hearing this audio, Kathryn Rubino immediately wanted to know if this was an enforceable promise.

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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?

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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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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