Dinner with Justice Thomas
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I had dinner with Clarence Thomas tonight. What an amazing guy. And he has a great sense of humor. We laughed about Georgia football.
Someone asked him what he thought about Joe Biden saying that after 16 years Biden was still glad he voted against Clarence Thomas. Thomas replied, “Make that two of us.”
He also said that he told Vice President Quayle at the time that Thomas expected a 50-50 tie with the VP casting the deciding vote. Quayle replied, “But you never came to lobby me.”
Justice Thomas had a lot of great stories and really spoke highly of the other Justices on the bench with him. He said he gets along with all of them and they regularly eat together at Sandra Day O'Connor's insistence. He does a fantastic impersonation of Justice O'Connor.
Also, his new book My Grandfather's Son is a terrific read -- and I really mean it. He wrote it himself. Unlike Greenspan, Justice Thomas said, he wrote the whole thing, not just the first and last draft.
Oh, and lastly, liberals take heed: Justice Thomas says that should he remain in good health, he hopes to die on the bench. Recent news reports suggest that he could be the longest service Justice in history. Take little comfort in that.
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Does you having dinner with Justice Thomas mean you have a new Supreme Court source now??
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"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?
I'm wondering if he spoke at all about the race issues that came up in his book? I found those to be fascinating, and in fact gave me a whole new perspective on racism. I have to agree with him when he says that if he was white, he would have never gone through the Anita Hill situation. And if he was white, he also wouldn't consistently be seen as someone who follows Justice Scalia (which I've read in books on the courts is the complete opposite of how things really are).
you had dinner with him. surely more came up than that...
or you can just tell me personally if you don't want to tell all the other redstaters. :)
...that must have been Clarence Thomas is one of my biggest hero's...
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You mentioned the Georgia football thing. If so, he is better than I even thought!!
Go Dawgs, Sic em' Woof Woof
There being little left to watch.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
I'm in Law School right now. I hope Justice Thomas is on the bench long enough for me to argue a case before him.
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Jan Crawford is doing a great job for ABC and even the 60 Minutes interview was fair & balanced.
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makes me like him so much more. He really seems to be one of the most honorable men in Washington, or in America, really. He makes all the Democratic presidential candidates look like such sniveling panderers.
Generally I'm not a fan of that theory. There is a point at which a judge is no longer effective, and that point may come before death (see Chief Rehnquist).
But if anybody is going to get carted off the bench in a box, Thomas is the guy I'd pick. Scalia has the rhetoric and the wit, but when it comes to unburdening the law of the activism of the Warren Court I think Thomas is the most direct and "radical" in his philosophy.