US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized

You show these two tweets as-if both weren't clearly politically motivated.

I have no idea who this Ellen Hopkins is, but she's not wishing Thomas dead, just wishing he would leave the Court.

As-if the religious right didn't have parties when RBG died?

I found her 2nd tweet there to be respectful, while wishing him off the Court.

Your "outrage" is misplaced here....

You found her 2nd tweet to be "respectful" in that she wished his health was so bad it forced him off the court.

I'd love to see any evidence of "parties" by the religious right when RBG died. If they did, then they are just as bad as the BLMers who partied when one of their own murdered a guy for wearing a MAGA hat.

hubrys

I don't like him because of his stances against right to privacy, gay marriage, abortion, freedom of the press, and the separation of church and state. If Thomas had his way, then a state could not only adopt an official religion, but also make being gay a crime.

I don't wish upon him calamity, but I also don't wish good health to him.

raphjd

@hubrys

I'd like to see proof of your claims.

That says everything about you and your ilk.

bi4smooth

@raphjd said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized:

@hubrys

I'd like to see proof of your claims.

That says everything about you and your ilk.

I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy.

hubrys

@bi4smooth said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized:

I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy.

Justice Thomas notoriously does not believe in the Incorporation Doctrine, i.e., the judicially created legal framework that interprets the 5th and 14th Amendments as having incorporated the Bill of Rights against the states. In Thomas's judicial philosophy, the First Amendment applies only and exclusively to the Federal Government, not state governments. If Georgia wants to make Baptist its official religion, then it can do so under Thomas's interpretation of the Constitution. If Utah wants to make Mormonism its official religion, then it can do so. You can Google and read for yourself his dissent in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.

As an attorney that has both studied Constitutional law as well as practiced it, I have no doubts about what Thomas's judicial philosophy is. You can Google it yourself. It shouldn't be hard to find explanations. His perspective is unique amongst his fellow justices. It is why he so often concurs with the results reached by the Conservative majority, but does not agree with their reasoning.

As for believing gay should be illegal, he dissented in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down anti-gay sodomy laws (previously upheld by the SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick).