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Jilly_in_VA

(13,133 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:35 PM Saturday

Thomas Gives Crazy Reason for SCOTUS to Tear Up Settled Law

Justice Clarence Thomas is finding increasingly creative ways to justify reshaping long-standing laws.

During a rare appearance at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the George W. Bush–appointed justice said the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent, arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,” ABC News reported.

Thomas, 77, reasoned that some precedents were simply “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”

“At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis‚" Thomas said, referring to the legal principle of abiding by precedent. “And it’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-gives-bonkers-reason-for-scotus-to-tear-up-settled-laws/

This corrupt ole cane toad must be impeached!

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Thomas Gives Crazy Reason for SCOTUS to Tear Up Settled Law (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Saturday OP
Thomas was appointed by George H.W. Bush J_William_Ryan Saturday #1
Stare decisis provides a predictable and stable legal environment struggle4progress Saturday #2
We are so fortunate crud Saturday #3
Further, Jilly_in_VA Saturday #4
ROTTEN to the core. johnnyfins Saturday #5
roberts court is such a disgrace. republianmushroom Saturday #6
Projection - that's exactly how they are operating... Wounded Bear Saturday #7
The precedents were made by justices who were orangutans according to Thomas, speaking metaphorically andym Saturday #8
He was appointed by GHW Bush not W. karynnj Saturday #9

J_William_Ryan

(3,035 posts)
1. Thomas was appointed by George H.W. Bush
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:45 PM
Saturday

Like most on the authoritarian right Thomas has long been an enemy of the rule of law and constitution.

struggle4progress

(124,695 posts)
2. Stare decisis provides a predictable and stable legal environment
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:52 PM
Saturday

so the changes in the law usually occur slowly, rather than being sudden; it attempts to respect the experience and wisdom of people who came before

Ideological nitwits like Thomas believe they can craft workable solutions to real-world disputes by studying their own navel lint, instead of examining actual facts in context

crud

(1,075 posts)
3. We are so fortunate
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:57 PM
Saturday

that this brilliant man ignores precedent, and declares the criminal in the Whitehouse all powerful. Such a fine brain he has, so smart to take a fresh look at our constitution and ignore it.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,133 posts)
4. Further,
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:11 PM
Saturday

he is corrupt as hell, and there's proof of it if anyone even cared to look. Oh, and he liked like a rug in his confirmation hearing too. Two reasons for impeachment.

Wounded Bear

(63,070 posts)
7. Projection - that's exactly how they are operating...
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:42 PM
Saturday

Someone comes up with some crazy idea and others go along with it, regardless of established law or public opinion.

andym

(6,040 posts)
8. The precedents were made by justices who were orangutans according to Thomas, speaking metaphorically
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:46 PM
Saturday

"Thomas, 77, compared his Supreme Court colleagues to passengers on a train, and said: ”We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it’s an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it’s a train.”

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