Justice Thomas Says Leaked Opinion Destroyed Trust at the Supreme Court

In remarks at a conference in Dallas, he also decried the recent protests at justices’ homes and said conservatives would not adopt such tactics. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. WASHINGTON â€" The leak of a draft opinion has done irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas said at a conference in Dallas on Friday night, adding that it had destroyed trust among the members of the court.“What happened at the court is tremendously bad,” Justice Thomas said. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them.”The leak of the opinion, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, was “like kind of an infidelity,” Justice Thomas said.“Look where we are, where that trust or that belief is gone forever,” he said. “And when you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder.”He drew a contrast with the court that sat for 11 years without a change in personnel before the arrival of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in 2005.“This is not the court of that era,” he said, adding: “We actually trusted each other. We may have been a dysfunctional family, but we were a family.”There have been many changes since 2005, and only Justices Thomas and Stephen G. Breyer, who is about to retire, are still on the court. The setting for Justice Thomas’s remarks was a conference sponsored by several conservative and libertarian groups â€" the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute and the Hoover Institution â€" that said it meant to “re-examine the problems of social, racial and economic inequality in America.”Justice Thomas took part in an after-dinner conversation with one of his former law clerks, John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and answered questions from the audience. Professor Yoo was one of the architects of the Bush administration’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks, and Justice Thomas joked that his former clerk would face a confirmation battle were he nominated to the federal bench. Justice Thomas said the left has adopted tactics that conservatives would not employ.“You would never visit Supreme Court justices’ houses when things didn’t go our way,” he said. “We didn’t throw temper tantrums. It is incumbent on us to always act appropriately, and not to repay tit for tat.”He added that conservatives have “never trashed a Supreme Court nominee.” He acknowledged that Merrick B. Garland, President Barack Obama’s third Supreme Court nominee, “did not get a hearing, but he was not trashed.”“You will not see the utter destruction of a single nominee,” he said. “You will also not see people going to other people’s houses, attacking them at dinner at a restaurant, throwing things on them.”He said Justice Brett M. All data is taken from the source: http://nytimes.com Article Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/us/politics/supreme-court-clarence-thomas.html #said #newstodayusa #newsnews #news2019 #upnewstoday #newsyearresolution #


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