God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Tag: Clarence Thomas
Ginni Thomas is making white people look bad
I am flabbergasted—and, believe me, I do not flabbergast easily—by the lack of response among the chattering class about the fledermaus1 freaky emails exchanged by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over that horror of horrors, the Biden “coup”. Among other things, Thomas repeated…
Clarence Thomas’ “originalism” too original for Damon Root
It is, I think, “amusing” to expect intellectual consistency from a man who, like four other unscrupulous “conservatives”, found that George Bush had a constitutional right to the presidency, come hell or high water, in the very worst Supreme Court decision ever, Bush v. Gore, whose multiple hypocrisies were ably deconstructed back in the day…
Clarence Thomas to Brethren: Why Can’t You Guys Listen to “Reason”?
Why indeed? The Supreme Court recently refused the opportunity to consider a raft of lower court decisions regarding both the Second Amendment and the “qualified immunity” extended to public officials—most “controversially” (that is to say, most inappropriately), as applied to the police— protecting them against law suits for their actions—like blowing someone’s head off for…
Textualism refuted! Or Clarence Thomas lays an egg
A few posts back, I groused (loudly) over Justice Clarence Thomas’ majority opinion in FTB v. Hyatt, overturning a previous Supreme Court decision, Nevada v. Hall regarding the immunity of states from suit in other states’ courts. In rejecting Hall, the Court found that the Constitution not only grants states an inherent immunity to suits…
Justice Thomas, casting shade—on the Constitution!
If you want to get a laugh out of a constitutional “originalist” like Supreme Court Justice Clarence “if it ain’t there it ain’t there” Thomas, use the word “penumbra” in a sentence. Yes, it is inside, but it’s funny, to Clarence and his Federalist pals, thanks to Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, who, writing in…
Yo, Clarence Thomas! God is the searcher of all hearts, not you!
Clarence Thomas, eagerly accepting the role of Supreme Court curmudgeon in chief now that Nino Scalia has cashed in his chips, eagerly accused six of his colleagues of cowardice—or perhaps believing in “abortion rights”—when only Justices Gorsuch and Alioto would join him in voting to hear appeals of cases that involved the use of Medicaid…
My advice to other people
Norm MacDonald: Try being funny. Cory Booker: Try being not stupid. If you (and the Democrats) are lucky Hurricane Florence will erase all memory of this self-generated cycone o’ shit that now swirls about you. Fortunately, only political junkies were following the Kavanaugh hearings in the first place, and, even better, even fewer Americans know…
UPDATE: Clarence Thomas didn’t “vote black”; other conservatives voted “white”
On Monday, I used the time-honored journalistic dodge of “ethically” floating a sensational but unverified allegation by stating it in the form of a question, to wit: Clarence Thomas didn’t just ‘vote black’, did he? Well, according to Mark Joseph Stern, over at Slate, he didn’t. Instead, he voted “Thomas.” “Clarence Thomas Joins Liberals, Shocks…
Clarence Thomas didn’t just “vote black”, did he?
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is, to put it mildly, known for his scorn for anything resembling “affirmative action”. So why was Thomas joining a bunch of, you know, liberals, in Cooper v. Harris to affirm a lower court ruling overturning a little scheme cooked up by North Carolina Republicans to pack all the black…