Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
She is partisan no doubt, but that is just a plain ignorant attack Jill!
I find her being a racist to be plain ignorant.
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She is partisan no doubt, but that is just a plain ignorant attack Jill!
I tend not to ask many questions as well. It's much better to listen.
I tend not to ask many questions as well. It's much better to listen.
She is partisan no doubt, but that is just a plain ignorant attack Jill!
I find her being a racist to be plain ignorant.
I tend not to ask many questions as well. It's much better to listen.
Thomas isn't smart enough to ask questions.
Dat cuz he black...
BTW, don't you have a cross burning to go to?
Websters abridged notes that the proper pronunciation of the word democrat is "fucking bigot."
She is partisan no doubt, but that is just a plain ignorant attack Jill!
You people are pathetic. He has a long list of written opinions. He doesn't have to put on a show for your benefit to prove that a Black Conservative can be intelligent.
Supreme Court Collection: Opinions by Justice Thomas
Oh. Of course a Black Conservative Man cannot write his own opinions.
How pathetic. If a conservative person started a thread questioning Sotamayor's ability to speak or write, said person would be lobbed a hailstorm of racism accusations.
Im not black but the left still doesn't like me.
But it's alright. I don't much care.
The "criticism" is total horse shit.
By the time a case makes it to the SCOTUS, it has been thoroughly digested, researched, been the subject of several lower Court decisions, has had countless briefs of fine-tooth-comb legal analysis prepared and argued and counter-argeed. Then, as if that weren't enough, the litigants get to make additional oral arguments before the SCOTUS bench and get peppered by the other Jurists with questions designed to nail down the bases for the upcoming decisions. Justice Thomas has even DISCUSSED his reluctance to ask questions from the bench: "if you wait long enough, someone will ask your question."
Here's a more complete quote:In His Own Words - Justice Clarence Thomas - NYTimes.com [Emphasis added].Published: December 14, 2000
JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS
Remarks yesterday in a televised question-and-answer session with high school students, when asked why he did not pose questions in oral arguments before the Supreme Court:
''There's no reason to add to the volume. I also believe strongly, unless I want an answer, I don't ask things. I don't ask for entertainment, I don't ask to give people a hard time. I have some very active colleagues who like to ask questions. Usually, if you wait long enough, someone will ask your question. The other thing, I was on that other side of the podium before, in my earlier life, and it's hard to stand up by yourself and to have judges who are going to rule on your case ask you tough questions. I don't want to give them a hard time. But I'm going to give you a more personal reason, and I think this is probably the first time I ever even told anybody about it. How old are you? You're 16. When I was 16, I was sitting as the only black kid in my class, and I had grown up speaking a kind of a dialect. It's called Geechee. Some people call it Gullah now, and people praise it now. But they used to make fun of us back then. It's not standard English. When I transferred to an all-white school at your age, I was self-conscious, like we all are. It's like if we get pimples at 16, or we grow six inches and we're taller than everybody else, or our feet grow or something; we get self-conscious. And the problem was that I would correct myself midsentence. I was trying to speak standard English. I was thinking in standard English but speaking another language. So I learned that -- I just started developing the habit of listening. And it just got to be -- I didn't ask questions in college or law school. And I found that I could learn better just listening. And if I have a question I could ask it later. For all those reasons, and a few others, I just think that it's more in my nature to listen rather than to ask a bunch of questions. And they get asked anyway. The only reason I could see for asking the questions is to let people know I've got something to ask. That's not a legitimate reason in the Supreme Court of the United States.''
If Justice Thomas has determined that posing more "questions" at that point is simply posturing, then why on Earth should he have to pretend to "ask" probing meaningful questions which have already been repeatedly asked and addressed?
It's not like he doesn't already have the Constitution and precedent a-plenty to guide him.
On the other hand, if a strong line of cases have been decided in a manner which he deems to constitute a violation of the actual meaning of the Constitution, he has suggested that it is better to GET IT RIGHT than to simply adhere to "precedent." I agree. I am curious how people can possibly disagree, in fact.
I tend not to ask many questions as well. It's much better to listen.
1. You aren't a supreme court justice
2. The process requires questioning.
3. Anyone who is too stupid to ask a question doesn't belong ing the bench
I'm going to bet, dim bulb, that if I look at your posts, I'm going to find out you're racist trash.
But no one criticizes Thomas b/c he's black.
You people are pathetic. He has a long list of written opinions. He doesn't have to put on a show for your benefit to prove that a Black Conservative can be intelligent.
Supreme Court Collection: Opinions by Justice Thomas
Well, he's already proven he's ignorant, so no surprise there.
No one ever said his clerks didn't draft opinions.
Justice Thomas has even DISCUSSED his reluctance to ask questions from the bench: "if you wait long enough, someone will ask your question."
A Supreme Court Justice with this view?
What if there is no "long enough" and his questions do not get asked?
I'm amazed that some would agree with this extension. On a discussion board, why not?
In my personal view, for a Supreme Court Justice to follow such an extension is a travesty.
I thought Canadians were too polite to a fault. Justice Thomas takes it to another level.
The level of invisibility.
So because he doesn't posture properly, he is disengaged and doesn't care? Maybe during the first 15 years he was on the court he figured out the statement you quoted was actually true. I imagine if at some point that was not the case, he'd ask a question.
Why does being quiet automatically equate to being stupid or disengaged?