I have never thought highly of Clarence Thomas as a jurist. He seems too much like a flunky of the Executive branch when a Republican is President and too consistently uncooperative when a Democrat is President. Indeed that is about all that I can say about him without saying something horrible.
It looks reasonably certain that should he retire. it won't be Donald Trump who nominates a replacement. Just think -- Donald Trump, so reckless about so many other things appointing a Justice to the Supreme Court. Another good reason to support Hillary Clinton if one is a Democrat or Independent -- and Gary Johnson if one is a Republican. Of course Hillary Clinton deserves no unqualified support... but Donald Trump deserves none.
It looks reasonably certain that should he retire. it won't be Donald Trump who nominates a replacement. Just think -- Donald Trump, so reckless about so many other things appointing a Justice to the Supreme Court. Another good reason to support Hillary Clinton if one is a Democrat or Independent -- and Gary Johnson if one is a Republican. Of course Hillary Clinton deserves no unqualified support... but Donald Trump deserves none.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.