06-20-2016, 04:05 PM
(06-20-2016, 05:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: 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.
Although these are very low bars to cross, I think of him higher than Scalia (who took a Rush Limbaugh type approach to his jurisprudence) and Alito (who's about as blatant as a right wing partisan jurist as we've had in a while). Thomas also has a few issues where he's actually OK to good on. Of course, he more than cancels that out by going way off the deep end many times where not even Scalia or Alito would tread. He did that again today, basically pining for the Lochner era again in this opinion:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15p...6_o7jp.pdf