Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "NBC News"
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Laura,
That's not true. There's no doubt that he's a dummy, a lazy time-server, and that he perjured himself at his Senate Confirmation hearings.
It is wrong, however, to say that he has been ineffective. The Federalist Society has a lot of members who are dolts, thugs, and clowns, with a light sprinkling of fascists. It also has a few -- a large minority -- who are principled conservatives, and a few more who are just-for-fun fans of the original Jennings Randolph.
Many of these latter two groups are highly intelligent -- and a numbskull like Thomas still has to have clerks. For a bright young conservative of the Bill Buckley variety, a spell of writing judgements for Justice Thomas can be fun, challenging, a chance to put right-wing dogma into circulation at the least and on the books at best. It's also good on the resume if you're headed for big corporate law.
I used to read Supreme Court judgements, sometimes for work, scurrying over to the Supreme Court to pick them up off that little table where they release them (on I forget which day of the week it was: it's 48 years now) and sometimes just out of interest. I've read them desultorily over the past few years. All of Clarence Thomas's office's output is really first-class work.
I don't think he did it, and I don't think his dog did it unless dogs regurgitate homework they've eaten. Because of his ideological position he has attracted some good minds. His clerks have included some really fine and competent people.
Don't take your enemy for granted, Laura.
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