Justice Thomas

Clarence Thomas seems so bright, how can he be so self hating as well?



Jeffrey Toobin: First Monday, First Tuesday - Politics on The Huffington Post: "All of these changes, however, may look modest and preliminary if a Republican wins the next election. The next three likely departures on the Court all come from its embattled liberal wing. John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are all expected to leave the Court in the next few years. Conservative replacements will unite the Court in a way the nation has not seen since the mid-1960s, when Chief Justice Earl Warren led a phalanx of liberals. Of course, the Roberts Court would present an ideological mirror image of that increasingly distant epoch. This is as it should be. The Constitution allows presidents to shape the Court in their images. All presidents try, and most succeed. Informed voters will recognize that they'll not only be choosing a president in 2008, but shaping the Supreme Court for decades to come."