You wouldn't have been appointed to the Supreme Court according to the values of the new United States in 1776. You wouldn't have even been allowed to learn to read. Progressivism is what got you your job.

I understand what you are saying, I guess.

Right wingers always point to the Declaration of Independence as their go to document, over the Constitution. Shrub and his crew always cited the Declaration as justification for whatever they were doing. The Constitution has that nasty Bill of Rights and they hate all but a couple of the amendments.

But yeah, back in those enlightened days of 1776, Clarence might have been lucky and worked as one of the signer's butlers, or he could have ended up a field hand. And nobody would have given two shits for his opinions, either way, on anything, never mind the law.

"I hope so!"

You are a corrupt piece of trash.

There certainly is nothing supreme about you or this court.

You should be in prison not on the bench.

... one of your "friends".

I got mine, screw the rest of you. It’s his theory of jurisprudence.

as the country did. That's part of the freedom it is designed to protect.

Conservatives are the ones who the Constitution has fallen out of favor with. They want to restrict other's freedom.

The greatest failure of our democracy was not listening to Anita Hill and taking her seriously enough to stop Clarence Thomas from soiling the reputation of the Supreme Court.

Article III clearly spells out the S.C.'s job which is to interpret the latter not the former, so is Thomas abandoning his oath to the Constitution?

The Declaration of Independence wasn't a marriage, it was a divorce.

Thanks for the thread TexasTowelie

The problem
Here is he fails to define “progressivism”.

And one could easily plug in the word “conservatism”
And give the exact same meaningless speech.


Example:

“Conservatism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,”

Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday. 

A spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” toward America -- by Americans -- has taken hold, Thomas said in remarks carried live on CSPAN.