Precedent kept Jim Crow and discrimination in commerce intact for decades. A black man in America who came of age in the sixties and early seventies and attended Yale Law School has every reason to despise precedent when they were the Slaugherhouse and Civil Rights cases and Plessy v. If Thomas thinks the precedents are wrong, he should strike them down. Toobin’s basic point has a couple of holes.

Even his ideological allies, who mostly come out the same way on cases, recognize that they must dwell within the world that their colleagues and predecessors created. It’s an act of startling self-confidence, but a deeply isolating one as well. He is so convinced of the wisdom of his approach to the law that he rejects practically the whole canon of constitutional law. He doesn’t respect the Court’s precedents. The abortion dissent explains why Thomas is so cut off on the Court, even from his fellow-conservatives. Roosevelt, the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution has become an “unworkable morass of special exceptions and arbitrary applications.” He said that, since the Presidency of Franklin D. What’s most extraordinary about Thomas’s dissenting opinion in the abortion case is not that he objects to the ruling as he noted, “I remain fundamentally opposed to the Court’s abortion jurisprudence.” But Thomas also took the opportunity to reject more than a century of the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence. Hellerstedt, but neither of the other dissenters (Roberts and Samuel Alito) joined Thomas’s opinion. By a vote of 5–3, the Court struck down Texas’s restrictions on abortion clinics in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jeffrey Toobin has made a cottage industry of comprehending the mind of Clarence Thomas, and insofar as he explains how the justice’s jurisprudence differs from the late Antonin Scalia he’s fine:įar more than even Scalia did, Thomas endorses originalism-the belief that the Constitution should be interpreted as its words were understood at the time it was written. Boston – More Than a Feeling Posted by humanizingthevacuum JFebruPosted in Uncategorized Tags: Lists Leave a comment on Someone’s knocking on the door: the best singles of 1976 Singles 7/1 The Staples Singers – Let’s Do It Againģ9. Elton John – I Feel LIke a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)ģ8. Don Williams – Til the Rivers All Run Dryģ6. Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mineģ5. The Brothers Johnson – I’ll Be Good to Youģ2. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Cherchez La Femmeģ0. Andrea True Connection – More More MoreĢ8. Tammy Wynette – Til I Can Make It on My OwnĢ7. Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in TownĢ5. Natalie Cole – Sophisticated Lady (She’s a Different Lady)Ģ3. Rufus featuring Chaka Khan – Sweet ThingĢ2. Isley Brothers – Harvest For the Worldġ8. Parliament – Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)ġ7. Donna Summer – Try Me, I Know We Can Make Itġ2. Rod Stewart – The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)ġ1. Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Wayġ0. Posted by humanizingthevacuum JPosted in Uncategorized Tags: Reagan, RIP Leave a comment on Elie Wiesel - RIP Someone’s knocking on the door: the best singles of 1976Ĥ. Only Elie Wiesel could have done it (Reagan, chastened, recovered with an excellent speech at the cemetery, in which for once the actor looked floored by the script and setting).

President, is not your place“), Wiesel reminded the president of his responsibility to bear witness for the sake of the survivors. In a quiet, firm, gently pleading voice (“That place, Mr. This became known as the Bitburg controversy, the first indication of how troubled Reagan’s term would be - and another reminder of the depths of his ignorance. To others I will leave the responsibility of eulogizing one of the late twentieth century’s most searing novelists, for I’m not as familiar with his work as I should be but my first acquaintance with Elie Wiesel was in 1985 when he accepted the Congressional Gold Medal and, to the astonishment of the crowd, admonished Ronald Reagan for insisting on visiting a graveyard in which SS men lay buried. Phoebe Snow – Poetry Man Posted by humanizingthevacuum JJPosted in Uncategorized Tags: Lists Leave a comment on I used to be a rolling stone: the best singles of 1975 Elie Wiesel - RIP Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony – The Hustleĭisco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes – Get Dancin’ Gary Stewart – She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles) James Brown – Funky President (People It’s Bad) Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain The Isley Brothers – Fight the Power (Part 1) / Fight the Power (Part 2)

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