Clarence Thomas rebukes Brown v. Board of Education ruling, saying, "it was a serious overreach"

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This was telegraphed by the far right legal community years ago and now Thomas is recognizing it in court. The same way they're telegraphing support for overturning Loving v Virginia in order the lay the groundwork for challenging gay marriage laws. These people show you their hand years and even decades in advance. It's up to you give a shyt.

If people don't vote...fine, whatever. I will spend zero time telling anyone to vote for Biden. I will simply state that I vote because of shyt like this. Because it's very clear that one party is hell bent on stacking as many white, racist, misogynist, anti-gay, pro child labor, etc judges on the courts as possible in order to create domino effects that end in things like...well, what we saw with Roe v Wade. There's a clear path to replacing Thomas and Alito, both of whom are older and may die. And Roberts suffers from seizures and may retire early for health reasons.
 

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It was 57 Democrats and 43 Republicans that voted on his nomination.



Would we see Trump getting confirmations with this kind of spread in 2024 :jbhmm:
Please also post up the evidence supporting your statement that I have bolded. When making a bombshell statement like that, you should also back it with irrefutable evidence.
 

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Please also post up the evidence supporting your statement that I have bolded. When making a bombshell statement like that, you should also back it with irrefutable evidence.


"Following is the 52-to-48 roll call by which the Senate voted tonight to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. A yes vote was a vote to confirm. Voting yes were 11 Democrats and 41 Republicans. Voting no were 46 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Alabama: Heflin (D) No; Shelby (D) Yes. Alaska: Murkowski (R) Yes; Stevens (R) Yes. Arizona: DeConcini (D) Yes; McCain (R) Yes. Arkansas: Bumpers (D) No; Pryor (D) No. California: Cranston (D) No; Seymour (R) Yes. Colorado: Brown (R) Yes; Wirth (D) No. Connecticut: Dodd (D) No; Lieberman (D) No. Delaware: Biden (D) No; Roth (R) Yes. Florida: Graham (D) No; Mack (R) Yes. Georgia: Fowler (D) Yes; Nunn (D) Yes. Hawaii: Akaka (D) No; Inouye (D) No. Idaho: Craig (R) Yes; Symms (R) Yes. Illinois: Dixon (D) Yes; Simon (D) No. Indiana: Coats (R) Yes; Lugar (R) Yes. Iowa: Grassley (R) Yes; Harkin (D) No. Kansas: Dole (R) Yes; Kassebaum (R) Yes. Kentucky: Ford (D) No; McConnell (R) Yes. Louisiana: Breaux (D) Yes; Johnston (D) Yes. Maine: Cohen (R) Yes; Mitchell (D) No. Maryland: Mikulski (D) No; Sarbanes (D) No. Massachusetts: Kennedy (D) No; Kerry (D) No. Michigan: Levin (D) No; Riegle (D) No. Minnesota: Durenberger (R) Yes; Wellstone (D) No. Mississippi: Cochran (R) Yes; Lott (R) Yes. Missouri: Bond (R) Yes; Danforth (R) Yes. Montana: Baucus (D) No; Burns (R) Yes. Nebraska: Exon (D) Yes; Kerrey (D) No. Nevada: Bryan (D) No; Reid (D) No. New Hampshire: Rudman (R) Yes; Smith (R) Yes. New Jersey: Bradley (D) No; Lautenberg (D) No. New Mexico: Bingaman (D) No; Domenici (R) Yes. New York: D'Amato (R) Yes; Moynihan (D) No. North Carolina: Helms (R) Yes; Sanford (D) No. North Dakota: Burdikk (D) No; Conrad (D) No. Ohio: Glenn (D) No; Metzenbaum (D) No. Oklahoma: Boren (D) Yes; Nickles (R) Yes. Oregon: Hatfield (R) Yes; Packwood (R) No. Pennsylvania: Specter (R) Yes; Wofford (D) No. Rhode Island: Chafee (R) Yes; Pell (D) No. South Carolina: Hollings (D) Yes; Thurmond (R) Yes. South Dakota: Daschle (D) No; Pressler (R) Yes. Tennessee: Gore (D) No; Sasser (D) No. Texas: Bentsen (D) No; Gramm (R) Yes. Utah: Garn (R) Yes; Hatch (R) Yes. Vermont: Jeffords (R) No; Leahy (D) No. Virginia: Robb (D) Yes; Warner (R) Yes. Washington: Adams (D) No; Gorton (R) Yes. West Virginia: Byrd (D) No; Rockefeller (D) No. Wisconsin: Kasten (R) Yes; Kohl (D) No. Wyoming: Simpson (R) Yes; Wallop (R) Yes."
 

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This was telegraphed by the far right legal community years ago and now Thomas is recognizing it in court. The same way they're telegraphing support for overturning Loving v Virginia in order the lay the groundwork for challenging gay marriage laws. These people show you their hand years and even decades in advance. It's up to you give a shyt.

If people don't vote...fine, whatever. I will spend zero time telling anyone to vote for Biden. I will simply state that I vote because of shyt like this. Because it's very clear that one party is hell bent on stacking as many white, racist, misogynist, anti-gay, pro child labor, etc judges on the courts as possible in order to create domino effects that end in things like...well, what we saw with Roe v Wade. There's a clear path to replacing Thomas and Alito, both of whom are older and may die. And Roberts suffers from seizures and may retire early for health reasons.
Say it out louder for the people on this site who think not voting is going to send a message
 

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"Following is the 52-to-48 roll call by which the Senate voted tonight to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. A yes vote was a vote to confirm. Voting yes were 11 Democrats and 41 Republicans. Voting no were 46 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Alabama: Heflin (D) No; Shelby (D) Yes. Alaska: Murkowski (R) Yes; Stevens (R) Yes. Arizona: DeConcini (D) Yes; McCain (R) Yes. Arkansas: Bumpers (D) No; Pryor (D) No. California: Cranston (D) No; Seymour (R) Yes. Colorado: Brown (R) Yes; Wirth (D) No. Connecticut: Dodd (D) No; Lieberman (D) No. Delaware: Biden (D) No; Roth (R) Yes. Florida: Graham (D) No; Mack (R) Yes. Georgia: Fowler (D) Yes; Nunn (D) Yes. Hawaii: Akaka (D) No; Inouye (D) No. Idaho: Craig (R) Yes; Symms (R) Yes. Illinois: Dixon (D) Yes; Simon (D) No. Indiana: Coats (R) Yes; Lugar (R) Yes. Iowa: Grassley (R) Yes; Harkin (D) No. Kansas: Dole (R) Yes; Kassebaum (R) Yes. Kentucky: Ford (D) No; McConnell (R) Yes. Louisiana: Breaux (D) Yes; Johnston (D) Yes. Maine: Cohen (R) Yes; Mitchell (D) No. Maryland: Mikulski (D) No; Sarbanes (D) No. Massachusetts: Kennedy (D) No; Kerry (D) No. Michigan: Levin (D) No; Riegle (D) No. Minnesota: Durenberger (R) Yes; Wellstone (D) No. Mississippi: Cochran (R) Yes; Lott (R) Yes. Missouri: Bond (R) Yes; Danforth (R) Yes. Montana: Baucus (D) No; Burns (R) Yes. Nebraska: Exon (D) Yes; Kerrey (D) No. Nevada: Bryan (D) No; Reid (D) No. New Hampshire: Rudman (R) Yes; Smith (R) Yes. New Jersey: Bradley (D) No; Lautenberg (D) No. New Mexico: Bingaman (D) No; Domenici (R) Yes. New York: D'Amato (R) Yes; Moynihan (D) No. North Carolina: Helms (R) Yes; Sanford (D) No. North Dakota: Burdikk (D) No; Conrad (D) No. Ohio: Glenn (D) No; Metzenbaum (D) No. Oklahoma: Boren (D) Yes; Nickles (R) Yes. Oregon: Hatfield (R) Yes; Packwood (R) No. Pennsylvania: Specter (R) Yes; Wofford (D) No. Rhode Island: Chafee (R) Yes; Pell (D) No. South Carolina: Hollings (D) Yes; Thurmond (R) Yes. South Dakota: Daschle (D) No; Pressler (R) Yes. Tennessee: Gore (D) No; Sasser (D) No. Texas: Bentsen (D) No; Gramm (R) Yes. Utah: Garn (R) Yes; Hatch (R) Yes. Vermont: Jeffords (R) No; Leahy (D) No. Virginia: Robb (D) Yes; Warner (R) Yes. Washington: Adams (D) No; Gorton (R) Yes. West Virginia: Byrd (D) No; Rockefeller (D) No. Wisconsin: Kasten (R) Yes; Kohl (D) No. Wyoming: Simpson (R) Yes; Wallop (R) Yes."

So the evidence shows that the Democrats could have kept him out of office, but 11 Democrats decided to vote yes on him, giving the Republicans the numbers they needed to place this poison pill on to the Supreme Court.

We as a people have to see the entire picture and not just the picture we are told to pay attention to. If the Democrats were of one accord on the issue of his candidacy, Clarence Thomas would have never been a Supreme Court Justice. They had the numbers to deep six his him, but again 11 choose not to. There is a lesson in this for us, and I suggest the lesson is that those who are suppose to represent our interests need to be vetted better than what we have been doing in the past. We can't just assume that a D next to the name means that person actually represents the desires of the people they claim to want to serve. So more needs to be done than just voting Blue no matter Who.
 
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