View Full Version : Not exactly the boogie man



NativeOkie
06-02-2009, 05:39 PM
I saw this story, and thought this is the evil guy?
I was hoping it would remind all of us that these judges so many make out to be the next Hitler are actually decent fellow Americans.
I pray he stays healthy and safe.
(all of them actually)

"We Didn't Know He Was Clarence Thomas" | NBC Washington (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/We-Didnt-Know-He-Was-Clarence-Thomas.html?yhp=1)

bretthexum
06-02-2009, 06:12 PM
Great story, thanks for sharing.

Midtowner
06-02-2009, 06:54 PM
By all accounts (except for Prof. Hill's), Justice Thomas is good people. That said, his dissent in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld basically saying that the law and the Constitution didn't apply when we were at war was just plain scary.

It's okay to like someone and disagree with them at the same time.

nighttrain12
06-02-2009, 09:23 PM
I wonder if they served 'coke' in a can on that flight? ;)

NativeOkie
06-02-2009, 11:25 PM
By all accounts (except for Prof. Hill's), Justice Thomas is good people. That said, his dissent in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld basically saying that the law and the Constitution didn't apply when we were at war was just plain scary.

It's okay to like someone and disagree with them at the same time.

That is in keeping with FDR during WWII, and Lincoln in the Civil war. Guess it is a case law thing.

Oh GAWD the Smell!
06-03-2009, 01:33 AM
It's okay to like someone and disagree with them at the same time.

That's crazytalk.

Midtowner
06-03-2009, 06:26 PM
That is in keeping with FDR during WWII, and Lincoln in the Civil war. Guess it is a case law thing.

Hah yeah, you want to hang your hat on Korematsu v. the United States and Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus, be my guest. First, as seen in Hamdan and subsequent detainee cases, the President doesn't have the same emergency powers today under this persistent state of "war" as, for example, the President would have when there is open and organized insurrection consisting of armies marching around taking territory.

At any rate, Korematsu has been specifically and completely overturned and we don't have anything even remotely close to a civil war going on, so I can't see how you'd think that'd be on point.

Finally, Thomas was the only Justice out of 9 who thought that there should be such an open-ended exception.

Stan Silliman
06-04-2009, 10:42 PM
There is something wrong with Clarence Thomas. Can't quite pinpoint it. He's a porn freak but I don't hold that against him whatsoever... especially after he posed nude in Jon Stewart's book.

No, there is something eating at me that makes me suspicious. Hmmmm
Oh, yeah... he's a Nebraska Huskers fan. He's a fan of a team that used to call themselves Bug Eaters. That's it.