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Clarence Thomas’ uproarious message to media on when he’ll ‘leave the court’ sure to leave a mark

May 16, 2022 | | Print Article

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There are limitations to what a sitting Supreme Court justice can get away with saying without creating conflicts that could lead to recusals, and Justice Clarence Thomas utilized more than 30 years of experience Friday to take potshots at the abysmal state of corporate media.

Thomas was a guest at the Old Parkland Conference in Dallas, TX where, during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute and the Hoover Institute, he offered some of his insight on current events. As former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo led the questioning, Thomas provided some of his genuine feelings about attacks he receives from the media.

“One of the things I say in response to the media is when they talk about, especially early on, about the way I did my job, I said, ‘I will absolutely leave the court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours – and that was meant as a compliment, really,” he stated candidly to raucous laughter from the attendees. Thomas then burst into a fit of his own boisterous amusement before adding, “It really is good to be me.”

The justice has frequently been the target of smears from the left for his personal opinions and the opinions of his wife, with some going as far as to label him “the most corrupt justice in American history.”

As such, he’s had considerable practice in defending both himself and the institution of the Supreme Court. At a speech at the University of Notre Dame in September he stated, “I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference. So if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician.”

In his remarks in Texas, Thomas returned to the import of trust in institutions as he touched on the leaked opinion of his peer Justice Samuel Alito. “When you lose that trust,” he said, “especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an infidelity that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it.”

Of the leak itself, he expressed, “I do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad…I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them and then I wonder when they’re gone or they are destabilized what we will have as a country, and I don’t think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.”

These statements are in stark contrast to incoming Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who shied away from direct comments and offered little that resembled an actual opinion on the leak and the protests that followed. “Everybody who is familiar with the court and the way in which it works was shocked by that,” she said associating herself with a view that she did not claim to be her own. “Such a departure from the normal order.”

She then claimed to not “have any comment” on the protests at the conservative justices’ homes which, after Thomas’ remarks, certainly makes her appear to be in favor of the activist pressures being applied.

“You would never visit Supreme Court justices’ houses when things didn’t go our way,” Thomas declared. “We didn’t throw temper tantrums. I think it is incumbent on us to always act appropriately and not repay tit for tat.”

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21 thoughts on “Clarence Thomas’ uproarious message to media on when he’ll ‘leave the court’ sure to leave a mark”

  1. I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Thomas. The main stream corporate media is indeed corrupt and democratic. Good for him.

    1. I have always respected Justice Thomas, but now I admire him more since he has a quick wit to go with his incredible ability to reason clearly.

      That spineless jellyfish, Roberts, could learn a lot from Justice Thomas if he wasn’t always licking Leftist boots.

  4. God Bless Justice Thomas – a true America who cannot be influenced by the disgusting leftist kommies !

  6. I am always disgusted when Justice Thomas is attacked by the left, as are other black conservatives, even to the point of being referred to as “white supremacists”! You know their old saying “if you aren’t a democrat, you ain’t black”, and if you think they don’t imply that, if not outright declare it, you have your head buried in the sand.

  7. I just hope that Justice Thomas stays on the court for a very long time. He is one of the best.

  8. CLARENCE THOMAS is one of the greatest Conservatives and Constitutionalists to ever serve on the court. He and the great Antonin Scalia can never be replaced. The so-called conservatives of today, other than Alito, are not true Conservatives.

  10. Biz pac censoring your comments. Anytime your computer is interrupted it’s a sign of censorship and bias

    1. You can override it, but it often takes 4 times or more to complete your comment. I have figured out how to do it and am willing to spend the time and effort to stop their attempts to stop my comments.

    2. Hello whsrispire,

      We here at BizPac Review are in no way attempting to stop you from using our comment system to voice your opinions. Can you please explain the “interruption” you mentioned previously so we can attempt to address it, if we are not currently working on it?

      Thank you for your patience

      1. Every time “I” start to write a comment the page goes to (in a flash) “Tommy’s Garage” full page covering everything! I have to hit rumble at the bottom to remove it and then click on my original BPR page listed at the top. That takes me back to the comment section for what I was commenting on. I proceed to type further response and it happens again, often over and over until finally I am able, after all this to complete my answer. Does that answer your question Sierra Marlee? I agree that it is time this stopped, as it makes BPR very difficult for a Conservative to comment on, which is obviously the whole point of the interference. Most people are not as determined as I am to complete and post my comment.

  11. It’s not surprising that Ketanji Brown Jackson had little to say about the leaking of Alito’s draft. After all, she’s not a real Supreme Court Justice, she just plays one on TV.

    1. We’ll be truly fortunate if she’s only ever known as the “travesty of justice”, and never gets onto the Court.

  12. Here’s my wish that Justice Thomas live a very long, healthy life and career!

  13. Can you imagine him as Chief Justice? The man is eloquent, intelligent, and unless he speaks, you might not know what he’s thinking, but he seems to have the right character to be a Justice. Glad he’s on the Court, even when I don’t agree with his opinion. That was the same premise that Kavanaugh and Barrett stuck to: is it in the Constitution? No? Then it’s either not constitutional or it’s covered through the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

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