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Justice Clarence Thomas is finding increasingly creative ways to justify reshaping long-standing laws.

During a rare appearance at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the George H.W. Bush–appointed justice said the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent, arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,” ABC News reported.

Thomas, 77, compared his Supreme Court colleagues to passengers on a train, and said: ”We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it’s an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it’s a train.”

He reasoned that some precedents were simply “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 day ago
[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These people are the real “Satanists”. They believe in a will to power and nothing else.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey hey, don't lump the satanists in with these pieces of shit, they are actually generally pretty cool in my experience.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

That’s why I used scare quotes, and not that “Satan worship” is even “real”, historically speaking, in so much as it represents the exaltation of material reality and the nihilistic pursuit of power for personal worldly gain, these “Christians” exemplify it far more than the self-described “Satanists”.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*His head needs to be removed.

Brought to you by the guillotine gang.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m a fan of burning at the stake, but I won’t turn down beheading.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose we could warm them up on the stake and then finish it on the guillotine

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

isclarencethomasdeadyet

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Supreme court justices are not actually that great at reasoning, especially the conservatives. Everyone should listen to 5-4, they do a great job revealing just how stupid the supreme court can be.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not stupid, it's intentional obtuseness in service to an ideology.

There is definitely some of that, probably even mostly that, but you'll never convince me Sam Alito is even a middling intellect

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

BUT this DOESNT APply to Their Rulings! THEIR rulings ARE Gospel!

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Corrupt! Fuck this dude. He single handedly has been a main factor of why the US has gone to shit.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not just him don't forget Roberts.

Roberts, between his hatred of fair elections and manipulation of the gullible press that echoed his "balls and strikes" myth making, might be the person most detrimental to US democracy

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Again... Personal limo plane with jacuzzi and pool but this time legal 21y pool ladies in bikini. The plane's name is probably the "bonkers"

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

"Because I was paid to"

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't care what his bullshit reasons are

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