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PSA: Clarence Thomas doesn't have time for your white bullshit.
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Date: April 14th, 2010 9:50 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
He's too busy being a fucking badass and forcefully steering the conservative wing of the court further right as he pursues his own fiercely personal vision of American federalism.
I sincerely HTFH. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 9:52 PM Author: Arrogant Onyx Sneaky Criminal Rigpig what does this mean (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14713518) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 9:53 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
You're white, and a faggot. Clarence Thomas is not, and not. He just doesn't have the time to deal with your dumb whiny bullshit, sorry its nothing personal.
I hope this clarified things for you. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:27 AM Author: Glittery Liquid Oxygen 8 days later, this makes me LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784748) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:01 PM Author: Purple round eye "forcefully steering"? try "failing to steer."
Raich Dickerson Hein Gonzales v Oregon United Haulers
sd i go on |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:04 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
No, you should shut the fuck up with this gay white bullshit until you read Jan Greenburg's account of the galvanizing effect that Thomas had on the right wing of the court when he joined the bench. HTH. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:05 PM Author: Purple round eye oh you mean her account of how he frightened o'connor leftward? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14713704) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:06 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
...As he drug Scalia and Rehnquist to the right? Yeah that's the account.
Also lol if you think that pointing out the cases where Thomas' views didn't win out proves that he has not managed to swing SCOTUS to the right.
You seem like the kind of guy who points to a non-zero murder rate in a large city and smugly declares that it proves that crime prevention efforts have failed to reduce crime there, conveniently ignoring the fact that we have no idea whether the murder rate would be even higher without those efforts. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:10 PM Author: Purple round eye yep, Rehnquist got drug alright! from opposing Miranda in the 70s to upholding it in Dickerson b/c, after all, by 2000, Miranda had become embedded in ARE national culture.
and Scalia, boy did he ever tack right! from being on board with Lopez & Morrison to concurring in Raich.
yep, Thomas sure did a job on those two!
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:12 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT THOMAS ACTUALLY PUSHED HIS FELLOW CONSERVATIVES TO THE LEFT ITS ALL SO OBVIOUS HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE WELL I FEEL DUMB NOW LOL |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:15 PM Author: Purple round eye i'm not suggesting that.
just refuting your OP which said he's "forcefully steering the conservative wing of the court further right" |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:17 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
Seeing as how neither of us can peer into an alternate universe where Clarence Thomas did not join the court I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this claim is unprovable either way.
I did cite a pretty well researched book to back up my assertion, however. You cited a cherry-picked handful of cases from the last 20 years. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:24 PM Author: Purple round eye lol @ "well-researched". Greenberg's conclusions about how Thomas affected the court are conjecture based upon conjecture based upon gossip and rumor. HTH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14713986) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:27 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
...and by SCOTUS standards, that's pretty rigorous. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:35 PM Author: Purple round eye ok, you don't like that i "cherry-picked" cases.
1/ go here
http://mqscores.wustl.edu/measures.php
2/ open justices.xls
3/ tell me whether Rehnquist became more or less conservative after Thomas joined the court |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:17 PM Author: Sticky coral field Dickerson was elaborate flame. Rehnquist knew if he sided with the minority, the majority opinion would go to someone who would enshrine Miranda warnings as necessary to comply with the 5A so he aligned with the majority instead and assigned the opinion to himself so that he could opine that the warnings were sufficient to ensure 5A compliance but that Congress could theoretically come up with a substitute that would work just as well. In doing so he ensured that there would at least be the potential that Miranda could be effectively overturned at some later date. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14713870) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:20 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
Clever girl. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:26 PM Author: Purple round eye Rehnquist was a partisan hack.
He feared that if Miranda were overturned, soccer moms by the thousands would be jarred into voting Dem in the 2000 election.
Rehnquist tried to pull a similarly politically-motivated stunt with Casey in 1992.
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:28 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
PS they're all opportunistic partisan hacks except for Thomas, who is a True Believer who follows his own path (which just happens to be extremely right wing.) Thanks for helping to make my point about how awesome Thomas actually is. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:39 PM Author: Sticky coral field "He feared that if Miranda were overturned..."
There was no chance Miranda would be overturned. Had he sided with Thomas and Scalia it would have merely been a 6-3 ruling rather than 7-2. |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:43 PM Author: Purple round eye Kennedy and O'connor might have been ok with overturning it if Rehnquist was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714219) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:47 PM Author: Sticky coral field I heard my rendition of events from Orin Kerr, former Rehnquist clerk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714282) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:48 PM Author: Purple round eye go on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714295) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:50 PM Author: Sticky coral field See above. He claims Rehnquist intervened to prevent the court from enshrining Miranda as constitutionally mandated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714335) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:49 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
UM THAT SOUNDS LIKE "HERESAY" TO ME
OR WAS IT "HEARSAY" LOL I CAN NEVER REMEMBER THAT ONE |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:53 PM Author: Sticky coral field Witness was not available. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714389) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:43 PM Author: Frisky multi-colored idea he suggested Kerr clerked for Kennedy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721063) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:55 PM Author: Comical nighttime friendly grandma Please continue. I never heard this before. I thought Rhenquist dissented in Casey. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714425) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:59 PM Author: Sticky coral field Who's talking about Casey? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714479) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 11:00 PM Author: Purple round eye not sure what you're responding to.
When Casey was first argued, Rehnquist thought he had the votes to overturn Roe (Kennedy was on board). But he didn't want to release the opinion before the 1992 election b/c he thought that would make women vote Dem. So he did something or other to try to delay the opinion. Not real sure, it's a vague memory of something i read a while ago. |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 12:34 AM Author: bateful ticket booth jew replace "fedearlism" with "liberty" and you've properly encapsulated CT's raison d'etre. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14715787) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 10:10 AM Author: Purple round eye wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14718208) |
Date: April 14th, 2010 10:55 PM Author: Grizzly Hall Karate http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1261191&forum_id=2#14492527 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714430) |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 10:57 PM Author: Purple round eye egregious Anita Hill trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14714452) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:01 PM Author: Grizzly Hall Karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14720723) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:41 PM Author: histrionic nursing home tell us more about your homoerotic obsession with black males (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721043) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:45 PM Author: irradiated fighting legal warrant Sorry you're a racist, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721093) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:46 PM Author: histrionic nursing home fuck you nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721101) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:46 PM Author: irradiated fighting legal warrant "Sorry you're a racist, bro" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721107) |
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Date: April 15th, 2010 4:47 PM Author: bonkers public bath I can picture him saying "Lets get down 2 bizness I got no time 2 play around what is this" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14721113) |
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Date: April 21st, 2010 11:53 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784319) |
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Date: April 21st, 2010 11:54 PM Author: Concupiscible Duck-like Fortuitous Meteor *steers a wide-load trailer* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784326) |
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Date: April 21st, 2010 11:56 PM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry Thomas' opinions read wonderfully close to that of a KKK member. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784347) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:20 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
This is bullshit, in his own principled if admittedly idiosyncratic way Thomas is probably the staunchest supporter of civil rights on the court today. I HOPE THIS HELPS. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:24 AM Author: Arrogant Onyx Sneaky Criminal Rigpig how smart do you think thomas is, relative to the other justices (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784712) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:29 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
Probably somewhere in the top half but below the top 1/3. Who really knows? I like him a lot personally so I put him up there, it's all speculation though.
I think he's certainly smart enough to be on the court but he doesn't really belong there in this day and age because he's not a terribly "political" person; he's a fundamentalist and a true believer, but 99% of the time he clings to philosophical principles where all of the other justices cling to practical politics. And people aren't sure what to make of that. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:30 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry So he's the 4th smartest justice is what you're saying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784792) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:32 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
I actually meant those boundaries to be inclusive and just worded it poorly, so if I had to guesstimate I would put him ~5th-3rd smartest. Who really knows? I know it's fashionable to call him dumb but he graduated middle of his class at Yale, which is definitely not "dumb AA nig" territory.
I don't think his raw intelligence is his greatest strength as a justice. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:34 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry I actually really like Thomas, he's a pragmatic "originalist" and honestly believes the Constitution quoting Harlan should be "color blind" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784834) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:35 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
...and for that, you say his opinions read like a "KKK member"? |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:36 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry A smart KKK member. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784860) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:37 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
Did you see that dissent where the first letter in each paragraph spelled out "N-I-G-G-E-R" |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:38 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry Really? lol if that's true. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784894) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:39 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
No man when has Thomas ever written a dissent that was five paragraphs long |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:40 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry Hilarious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784926) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:41 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
ty you should catch my act I'm here all night every night |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:43 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry Yeah man, I'm cracking up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784963) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:26 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784735) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:29 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
Yeah well we can't all be Stanford LR Ed Board (on the internet) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:30 AM Author: Blue Impressive Faggotry To be fair,
I'm only a 2L. hth. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:34 AM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke To be fair,
I'm sure you'll be EIC in no time man |
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Date: April 22nd, 2010 12:29 AM Author: very tactful set digit ratio u mad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#14784788) |
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Date: July 19th, 2011 10:05 PM Author: Heady harsh site yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1282887&forum_id=2#18565406) |