Clarence Thomas has helped lead the Supreme Court down a dangerous path, with unaccountable extremists dictating how we live, writes columnist Maureen Dowd.
In this Oct. 18, 1991, photo, Clarence Thomas is sworn in to the Supreme Court in Washington, by Justice Byron White. Watch from left are first lady Barbara Bush, President George H.W. Bush, behind Thomas, and Thomas' wife, Virginia Lamp Thomas. • “What is happening here?” a distraught Nancy Pelosi said Friday.
I was covering the first President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of a 43-year-old U.S. appeals court judge for the D.C. Circuit to take the seat of retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall. Clarence Thomas, standing in front of a weather-beaten shingled cottage, looked uneasy as Bush defended his conservative choice.
But when Bush joined Ronald Reagan on the ticket in 1980, he adopted Reagan’s more restrictive position. The right remained suspicious of Bush, though, and hoping to bring it around for his reelection, he appointed the ultraconservative Thomas. He also wanted to appeal to Black voters, still angry at the Willie Horton ugliness that had helped propel him to the White House.
Mitch McConnell and his Federalist Society minions used Trump as the host body. After wrecking the rules to keep Merrick Garland off the court, McConnell jammed through Amy Coney Barrett. Trump, who had once been a pro-choice, Nancy-and-Hillary-and-Chuck loving Democrat, was happy to flip to gain the fervor of an anti-abortion base.
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