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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bombshell on Roe v. Wade ‘changes the institution

September 13, 20224 Mins Read
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bombshell on Roe v. Wade ‘changes the institution,’ according to Justice Clarence Thomas. The unexpected leak of a draught opinion earlier this month, according to Justice Clarence Thomas, has transformed the Supreme Court. The judgement signals that the court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established the right to abortion over 50 years ago.

The leak was condemned as an inconceivable violation of trust by conservative Thomas, who joined the court in 1991 and has long sought for Roe v. Wade to be repealed.

“When you lose trust, especially in the organisation where I work, it profoundly alters the institution.” You begin to cast a glance behind you. “It’s like an affair that you can explain but not reverse,” he stated while addressing at a convention in Dallas on Friday evening.

The draught does not represent any of the court’s members’ final positions, according to the court, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the leak.

Before the May 2 leak of the ruling to Politico, Thomas, a Bush nominee, claimed it was “beyond anyone’s belief” that even a single word of a draught decision would be disclosed in advance, let alone an entire manuscript that spans almost 100 pages. According to Politico, conservative justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, in addition to Thomas, voted with the draught opinion’s author, Samuel Alito, to overturn Roe v. Wade and a 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that affirmed Roe’s finding of a constitutional right to abortion.

“If someone stated one word of one viewpoint would be leaked,” Thomas remarked, “the answer would have been: “Oh, that’s impossible.” That would never happen.”

“Now that trust or belief is gone for good,” Thomas stated at the Old Parkland Conference, which aims to “explore alternative proven methods to solving the difficulties confronting Black Americans today.”

“I do believe what happened in the court is very horrible,” Thomas stated at one point.

I’m not sure how long we’ll be able to maintain these institutions at the pace we’re destroying them.”

Thomas also mentioned the liberal protests at conservative justices’ residences in Maryland and Virginia after the draught opinion was released. Conservatives, Thomas claimed, had never acted in this manner.

“When things don’t go our way, you don’t go to the mansions of Supreme Court judges.” We didn’t have any tantrums. He remarked, “I believe it is incumbent on us to always conduct responsibly and not to payback tit for tat.”

On Saturday, protests were planned at the Supreme Court and around the country.
Neither Thomas nor any of the other attendees at the Dallas meeting mentioned the Jan. 6 uprising or Thomas’ wife, Virginia’s efforts to have the 2020 presidential election results annulled.

Clarence Thomas was speaking in front of an audience during a talk with John Yoo, a Berkeley Legal professor who served as a law clerk for Thomas for a year in the early 1990s.

Every year, each justice is assigned four legal clerks, and the present batch has been the subject of suspicion as a probable source of the draught opinion’s leak. They are one of a few organisations granted access to draught opinions, along with the judges and some administrative personnel.

Thomas also took questions from the crowd, including one from a guy who inquired about the court’s liberal and conservative alliances, such as the well-known friendship between the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The guy inquired, “How can we nurture the same sort of friendship inside Congress and throughout the broader population?”

“Well, for now, all I’m concerned about is keeping it at the court,” Thomas said. He went on to praise former colleagues in glowing terms. He explained, “This is not the court of that age.”

Despite his remarks, Thomas appeared to be in excellent spirits, laughing out loud at times. Yoo is well known for penning the so-called “torture memos” that George W. Bush used to abuse people.

After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Bush administration justified utilising “enhanced interrogation” tactics by claiming that he had photographed notes Thomas had taken during the discussion.

“Are you going to let them out?” Thomas inquired, giggling.

“Well, I know where to go…,” Yoo said.

Politico will now print everything I send them.”

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