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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday asked his first question on the bench since 2016"

    "Prior to 2016, Thomas hadn't said anything on the bench for a decade."

    https://www.axios.com/clarence-thoma...c66592523.html

    Another one of those stellar conservative appointees here, regular Oliver Wendell Holmes, fits right in with the Robert's Court, now I wonder if his wife gave him a good lecture for daring to say anything without clearing it with her first.

    And conservatives will tell us endlessly how they love the Constitution and the framework it established
    Asking questions means nothing. I have listened to many Supreme Court oral arguments and those justices that interrupt the attorney's case with too many questions and (sometimes silly) hypotheticals only take away some of his time and disrupt his case.

    To judge a justice by how many questions he asked is stupid. Try reading his decisions.

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    The lawyers are there make their cases and then be judged. Why should the justices do their work ?
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
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    Default "Clarence Thomas speaks on the bench after 3-year silence"

    and the first thing he did was spit out a pubic hair

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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    and the first thing he did was spit out a pubic hair
    Those things are hard to get rid of, but remember: "Things go better with Coca-Cola"

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    At least he is showing up for work

    Just sayin
    Yeah, if you call occupying a seat "showing up"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Asking questions means nothing. I have listened to many Supreme Court oral arguments and those justices that interrupt the attorney's case with too many questions and (sometimes silly) hypotheticals only take away some of his time and disrupt his case.

    To judge a justice by how many questions he asked is stupid. Try reading his decisions.
    Funny, thought asking questions was a avenue for learning something, well, unless you already have your mind made up and don't want to discover something that might possibly alter the conclusion you had going in. Didn't think that was the role of a SCOTUS Justice

    And how many majority or even minority reports has Thomas even offered? If my memory is correct, few, and for the most part they are just as easily identified as the other concurring opinions, he has little to offer, and I got to believe doesn't want to offer anything, he knows why and for what purpose he is there. As I said, didn't think that was the role of a SCOTUS Justice

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Funny, thought asking questions was a avenue for learning something, well, unless you already have your mind made up and don't want to discover something that might possibly alter the conclusion you had going in. Didn't think that was the role of a SCOTUS Justice

    And how many majority or even minority reports has Thomas even offered? If my memory is correct, few, and for the most part they are just as easily identified as the other concurring opinions, he has little to offer, and I got to believe doesn't want to offer anything, he knows why and for what purpose he is there. As I said, didn't think that was the role of a SCOTUS Justice
    Asking questions is a way to learn but when the two sides have prepared their cases and are given only thirty minutes each to present it to the court too many questions often take the attorney away from his main argument.

    I am not criticizing asking questions, only arguing that not asking questions is not a reason to criticize a justice. It is only part of today's hyper-partisanship that looks for something critical to say about a justice because they give liberal or conservative opinions a person dislikes. It is just a trivial attempt to push hate.

    Sometimes the questions completely change the direction a lawyer is arguing. He may be basing his case on one legal argument but when justices seem more interested in pursuing a different line of questioning he changes his argument.

    For a good example of a case in which the lawyer is asked an endless line of hypothetical examples is the recent establishment of religion case involving the large cross on public land that the government exchanged with a private organization making the cross on private land. Hypotheticals kept asking about the size of the cross.

    Here is a list of Thomas's opinions, concurrences, and dissents. It is more than a few. And I was not defending Thomas as much as saying the number of questions he asked is a silly criteria.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/ju...homas.dec.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Yeah, if you call occupying a seat "showing up"
    Ruthy isn’t even occupying her seat is she?

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Don't, that is your shtick, nothing against blacks, just think Roberts belongs on his local traffic court rather than the SCOTUS, and his performance proves I am correct

    And Ruth is where she belongs, sitting in the SCOTUS, probably where she will remain till at least after 2020
    Why do you hate blacks?

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday asked his first question on the bench since 2016"

    "Prior to 2016, Thomas hadn't said anything on the bench for a decade."

    https://www.axios.com/clarence-thoma...c66592523.html

    Another one of those stellar conservative appointees here, regular Oliver Wendell Holmes, fits right in with the Robert's Court, now I wonder if his wife gave him a good lecture for daring to say anything without clearing it with her first.

    And conservatives will tell us endlessly how they love the Constitution and the framework it established
    how dare the black man speak...right

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