Beware: Clarence Thomas Is One Of America’s Top Legal Minds

Thomas’s mere presence on the Court, combined with his efforts to grant legitimacy to long discarded doctrines, gives credibility to this narrow vision of the Constitution that it could otherwise never enjoy. Before the Tea Party even existed, before Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that the “hard part about believing in freedom” is allowing whites-only lunch counters to exist — and before three of Thomas’s colleagues joined him in trying to judicially repeal the Affordable Care Act based on a legal argument that, in one Reagan-appointed judge’s words, had no basis “in either the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent” — Thomas sat silently on the Supreme Court’s bench, pondering how to transform the Tea Party’s wildest dreams into reality.
Clarence Thomas is not a lightweight. He is one of the more intelligent members of the Supreme Court. And he is one of the most dangerous men in America. Progressives dismiss his intellect at their peril.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/24/3321531/clarence-thomas-americas-legal-minds-progressives-ignore-fact-peril/

Now that Scalia no longer is there to guide him, whom should he follow?

The fact that he's unwilling to engage Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kennedy, and the appeals presenters in vigorous debate & questioning tells us he's more than just an introvert. He's a political operative twisting the law to a narrow ideology. I don't care if he can spin frivolous arguments into refined legal language or kill it at Sudoku, his intelligence is wasted in his unwillingness to engage. He's a benchwarmer. The fact that he's smart only makes the tragedy of his appointment all the greater. Scalia was a knuckledragger, but at least he made his pro-rule-of-law opponents on the bench hone their arguments.

In long meetings, I ask questions to keep from falling asleep. How does he do it? Who writes the opinions, anyway?

ever to take position on the SC. He's a pathetic example of conservative values.

Nah, he seems more like an Angry Birds kind of guy to me.

if he even notices............

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

~~Abraham Lincoln

He's in over his head...always has been/

That's seven years in most places.

They both attended Koch annual functions. Thomas's wife was paid a handsome amount of money to promote the Tea Party and is still involved in RW organizations. Her income wasn't reported until an investigative reporter made it public. Then Thomas played dumb and amended his tax returns and SC paper work. Any one else would have charged with tax evasion.

That is, how he is supposed to vote: CAVEMAN.