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August 29, 2011

Thomas: The Greatest Legal Mind of His Generation

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If Toobin’s revionist take is correct, (and I defer to his knowledge of the direction of modern constitutional thought) it means that liberal America has spent a generation mocking a Black man as an ignorant fool,
even as constitutional scholars stand in growing amazement at the intellectual audacity, philosophical coherence and historical reflection embedded in his judicial work.... Thomas has been pioneering the techniques and the ideas that could not only lead to the court rejecting all or part of President Obama’s health legislation; the ideas and strategies Thomas has developed could conceivably topple the constitutionality of the post New Deal state. -- New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom | Via Meadia

Posted by Vanderleun at August 29, 2011 12:03 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The imagery of Frodo Baggins slogging through Mordor do destroy the precious thing is most apt.

Posted by: Jewel at August 29, 2011 12:18 PM

Now THIS is a black man who should have his statue on the mall... somewhere near Reagan's.

Posted by: Casca at August 29, 2011 2:13 PM

"the ideas and strategies Thomas has developed could conceivably topple the constitutionality of the post New Deal state." Just let me soak in these words for a while.

Posted by: RedCarolina at August 29, 2011 3:13 PM

His statue should be carved in rare ebony, imported from East India, with a nice rosewood base. Or bass.

Posted by: Jewel at August 29, 2011 3:16 PM

Jewel, you really want to start riots, burnings and shootings that won't stop until the eco-nazis rip out their lungs and the 'hoods carbonize the stratosphere.

OMG, the glory of color of the base of the clouds.

Posted by: Peccable at August 29, 2011 4:28 PM

Well, that would be more interesting than the pusleless limp wrists protesting with mere indignity over the bootjacks now on their necks. They doth protest not loudly enough methinks. What would Thomas think of the utter negation of the constitution by the tyrants out to enforce the laws of India?

Posted by: Jewel at August 29, 2011 7:35 PM

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