Justice Thomas (finally) speaks...

[davester]

...and sounds like a complete dick! I've heard several interviews with various justices, and even the ones I don't agree with at least sounded educated and had some principles. This guy however sounds like an evasive slimebag who never should have been appointed....IMHO of course. He did very skillfully diss Obama completely without saying anything of substance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whgcV8DapNM

[Chakravartin]

Very funny. You're doing exactly what he suggests critics would do to a black presidential candidate.

Did you write that ironically?

[Gutenberg]

Justice Thomas doesn't do politics? Excuse me, but you don't get to be a Supreme Court justice without doing politics. Gotta cry BS on that statement, which he made about seven times. The justice doth protest too much, methinks.

[Mac-A-Matic]

Ridicule and abuse towards the most conservative member of the Supreme Court? Well, this is the MR Forum where anything and everything conservative must be bad...

Sounds like the implication is that Thomas is supposed to be "down" with Barack simply because they're both black.

[swampy]

Playing the racist card, davester?

[davester]

swampy wrote:
Playing the racist card, davester?

Playing the dumbshit card, swampy?

[davester]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Ridicule and abuse towards the most conservative member of the Supreme Court?

The guy deserves abuse because he's a liar and a crook, not because he's conservative. He and his wife have made lots of money from SCOTUS decisions that Thomas should have been recused from, including the despicable Citizens United case. He also has ignored legal disclosure requirements regarding gifts and income that he and his wife have received. He's been appropriately referred to as an "ethics problem in a robe".

Mac-A-Matic wrote: Sounds like the implication is that Thomas is supposed to be "down" with Barack simply because they're both black.

Where did you get that nonsensical straw man? Made it up out of thin air as usual?

[August West]

davester wrote:
[quote=Mac-A-Matic]
Ridicule and abuse towards the most conservative member of the Supreme Court?

The guy deserves abuse because he's a liar and a crook, not because he's conservative. He and his wife have made lots of money from SCOTUS decisions that Thomas should have been recused from, including the despicable Citizens United case. He also has ignored legal disclosure requirements regarding gifts and income that he and his wife have received. He's been appropriately referred to as an "ethics problem in a robe".
I agree, davester. His wife's lobbying while he is passing judgment is absolutely despicable. His "forgetting" to file, IIRC, almost a million dollars, sickens the stomach. And that does not even consider his failure to engage counsel in court sessions.

[Mac-A-Matic]

davester wrote:
The guy deserves abuse because he's a liar and a crook, not because he's conservative. He and his wife have made lots of money from SCOTUS decisions that Thomas should have been recused from, including the despicable Citizens United case. He also has ignored legal disclosure requirements regarding gifts and income that he and his wife have received. He's been appropriately referred to as an "ethics problem in a robe".

I'm certainly not one to play the game of "this politico didn't profit off their position" as I have no doubt that Thomas has used whatever is at his means to advance his goals. Much like Obama and any other politico in the District. That's how it works whether you're a d or an r.

davester wrote:
Where did you get that nonsensical straw man? Made it up out of thin air as usual?

You said he "diss"ed Obama, implying that Thomas crossed some sort of line, as though black people are supposed to be in lock-step with one another.

[davester]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
[quote=davester]
The guy deserves abuse because he's a liar and a crook, not because he's conservative. He and his wife have made lots of money from SCOTUS decisions that Thomas should have been recused from, including the despicable Citizens United case. He also has ignored legal disclosure requirements regarding gifts and income that he and his wife have received. He's been appropriately referred to as an "ethics problem in a robe".

I'm certainly not one to play the game of "this politico didn't profit off their position" as I have no doubt that Thomas has used whatever is at his means to advance his goals. Much like Obama and any other politico in the District. That's how it works whether you're a d or an r.
You do know how courts work right?...and how judges must be impartial, right? ...and how they need to follow the laws, right?

Mac-A-Matic wrote: [quote=davester]
Where did you get that nonsensical straw man? Made it up out of thin air as usual?

You said he "diss"ed Obama, implying that Thomas crossed some sort of line, as though black people are supposed to be in lock-step with one another.
You got the "You said he "diss"ed Obama" part right. The remainder of your sentence is made up BS that in no way reflects anything I believe but apparently is how you read between the nonexistent lines.