The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015
Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with”, the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has said.
Thomas – part of the conservative supermajority that has taken hold of the supreme court over Donald Trump’s two presidencies – delivered those comments Thursday at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington DC, ABC News and other outlets reported. His remarks preceded the nine-month term that the supreme court is scheduled to begin on 6 October.
“I don’t think that … any of these cases that have been decided are the gospel,” Thomas said during the rare public appearance, invoking a term which in a religious context is often used to refer to the word of God. “And I do give perspective to the precedent. But … the precedent should be respectful of our legal tradition, and our country and our laws, and be based on something – not just something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”
The precedent is the legal tradition you pompous buffoon (Thomas not OP)
Fun fact, Clarence Thomas’ reaction to Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained was, “Sam’s getting soft in his old age.”
Clarence Thomas is the kind of man who after spending 12 years a slave would go out and hunt runaway slaves for his own new land.
Just a reminder that this fucker sexually harassed Anita Hill for years.
And subjected other colleagues and associates to his porn addiction at the very least.
In other words, Uncle Thomas is done pretending he cares about the law
Yeah… Wonder if he’s already got a carve out written up specifically for him when they overturn the civil rights act or interracial marriage?
Precedent is important, but it’s superseded by whether or not the plaintiff has taken Thomas on vacation recently.
“precedent” was destroyed in 2022. The Supreme Court are just tools of the christian cult. They have destroyed American law.
American law is as stable as a house of cards when half the country would rather base the law on presumptions of what 18th century white supremacists might have preferred to the needs of Americans in the 21st century…
Precedent was destroyed long before then…
Yuppp
There is an extremely long history of discussion about Clarence Thomas and stare decisis / precedent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-precedent.html
Ok so how do the citizens pull him out of that office?
This is what the 2nd Amendment was written for…
We can’t, of course. SCotUS judges can only be removed by congressional impeachment, and we all know what a comically shit hope that is currently.
They can also be removed by invoking the wnd amendment…
By the neck.
There are ways to remove a supreme Court justice, however given the political landscape the only practical way he’s leaving is through his death.
Wawawewa
Well, we’ve tried ballot box, soap box, and jury box. What’s left?
Pine?
He’s too good for that, fucking plywood
Wicker basket then.
I was going to say cardboard but damn a pier one wicker coffin is probably the worst way to be buried.
NOT THE BEES
fun fact: clarence thomas is a tosser. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Constitutional Law Professors right now
I mean we already know that because that’s what they’ve been doing for several years now
Not like precedent was a large reason for rulings from this court so far.
Don’t forget:
A big reason Thomas is a SC judge is Biden ran a sham confirmation hearing for his “good buddies across the aisle”…
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-anita-hill-women-senate-clarence-thomas-213864
When Biden bitched and moaned about how it wasnt like “the good ole days” is because back then he was at best a useful idiot, if not outright intentionally helping the far right religious extremists who now run the GOP.
Decades of neoliberalism is coming home to roost with trump. A real party never would have let them set all this shit up over the decades.
