In high-profile decisions last June, Justice Clarence Thomas did not disappoint his admirers. He was the only justice who would have struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, delivered a blistering, detailed solo opinion attacking affirmative action, and joined two dissents in the gay marriage case as well as court holdings in the employment discrimination allegation case. In Fisher vs. U. of Tex., Thomas demonstrated that pro-affirmative action justices use the same rationalizations (pdf 31-2) as slaveholders and segregationists did. In U.S. vs. Windsor, he joined Justice Scalia’s opinion excoriating (pdf 53, 55) five justices for declaring that those who disagreed with them regarding gay marriage are “enemies of the human race” and “unhinged members of a wild-eyed lynch mob.”
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:21:37 +0000
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