Newsmax: Clarence Thomas blasts confirmation process, pubic hairs in coke

[Ian David]

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Clarence Thomas Blasts Confirmation Process

As Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito prepares to go before the Senate in January, Justice Clarence Thomas has blasted the confirmation process for new members of the court.

In a question-and-answer session at the University of Alabama School of Law, Thomas told students and other audience members the process is so intense that federal court judges turn down the opportunity to serve on the Supreme Court, and said the confirmation procedure should be "scaled back."

During Thomas' own confirmation hearings he had to wage a bitter battle - with former colleague Anita Hill accusing him of sexual harassment - before he was confirmed by a 52-to-48 margin.

Thomas also made these comments during the Q & A session, according to a report in The Crimson White, the University of Alabama's newspaper:

The courts are being "held hostage" by the issue of abortion, which has been at the center of every confirmation hearing since Roe v. Wade.

The personal lives of Supreme Court nominees shouldn't be thoroughly bared during the confirmation process.

The Senate votes for people who make decisions for or against their interests, instead of deciding whether they are capable of interpreting the law.

During his own confirmation hearings, he was the victim of a "high-tech lynching" by people who were supposed to be his friends.

Fears of "judicial activism" on the court are unwarranted.

When asked about religion and government, Thomas said the separation of church and state couldn't be found in the Constitution.

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[punpirate]

1. Of course, his own confirmation...

... wasn't about him being a bad, biased sleazeball judge, was it?

Anyone who can't figure out--or refuses to admit--what the First Amendment says shouldn't be on any court, let alone the Supreme Court.

This bozo makes even Clement Haynesworth look good.

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[RaleighNCDUer]

2. "Thomas said the separation of church and state couldn't be found

in the Constitution."

Screw pubic hair and coke cans -- he should have been rejected on this issue alone. Denying precedent that pre-dates the constitution itself.

[xxqqqzme]

12. well, you can thank biden

4 thomas stting on the court. I will never forget the way biden went after Anita Hill. He all but called her a liar. I remember watching those hearings and seeing ALL those white men sit there and pass judgment on HER; it was beyond belief. I was outraged! I have disliked and distrusted biden ever since. And then they confirmed uncle thomas - I cannot think of a person more unqualified 2 sit on SCOTUS, especially when you consider who he replaced (legal giant - Thurgood Marshall). Shameful!

[0007]

3. I still have a hard believing that Thomas is indeed sitting on the Supreme

Court.

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

No separation of church and state can be found in Constitution?

The Clarence Thomas viewpoint appears to be a good enough reason not to let the court be packed with Bushites.

[Ian David]

7. I agree. But I just like talking about pubic hair in coke. n/t

[KansDem]

5. What did Clarence Thomas say when someone spilled a soft drink in his lap?

"Hey, who put a Coke in my pubic hair?!"

[npincus]

6. he's mad because his porn-video club membership expired

[sui generis]

9. no it didn't

I did not have webcam sexual relations with THAT MAN.

[tocqueville]

8. judiciary approaches are basically undemocratic

If the Constitution means whatever it is decreed to mean by a judge, then "The Constitution ... is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please." -Thomas Jefferson)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution

[sui generis]

10. you cannot be a scholar of the constitution

and not understand what and why there is a separation of church and state, and that the ideas of the drafters of the constitution were extraordinarily explicit in this regard.

Clarence Thomas is a buffoon, and one of the reasons that the supreme court should most definitely have term limits.

[yellowcanine]

11. Thomas said the separation of church and state couldn't be found in the

Constitution. Well I guess he hasn't looked very hard.


U.S. Constitution: First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Or maybe it all depends on what the meaning of "separation" is.

Whatever, Clarence "Me Too, Tony" Thomas is on very thin ice to make such an assertion. Certainly one can debate tbe extent of allowable church/state interaction but to make the blanket statement that the "separation....." can't be found in the Constitution is dishonest.