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of the health care hearing at the SCOTUS?
I listened to part of day two and most of day three, but I missed day one.
Anyone know about Thomas?
I know he's famous for not asking question, so I was wondering.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)I don't see him mentioned anywhere in the transcript or hear him in the audio.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)ABC News
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas celebrated an unusual anniversary today: It's been five years since he's asked a question during oral arguments.
Over the years Thomas has read opinions from the bench, but the last time he spoke up spontaneously during an exchange among the justices and lawyers was in February 2006.
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I'm guessing it's been SIX years now
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Ah, here we go, just found this one too...
Six Years of Silence for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the Supreme Court justices Tuesday fired questions on the Obamacare mandate across the bench, one voice was notably -- but perhaps predictably -- silent. So far every justice on the bench has spoken up on the health care law except for one: Justice Clarence Thomas.
Indeed, if you search Tuesdays 126-page transcript of arguments, you wont find Thomas name a single time.
It has now been six years since the justice has asked questions during oral arguments, although he certainly has read his opinions from the bench in his robust baritone.
Thomas has said that he goes into the oral argument sessions knowing how he will decide a case so he doesnt ask questions.
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http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/national-news/26990-six-years-of-silence-for-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)..."Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finally released the details of his wife's income from her year or so working for the tea party group Liberty Central, which fought President Obama's health care reform law. His new financial disclosure form indicates that his wife, Virginia, who served as Liberty Central's president and CEO, received $150,000 in salary from the group and less than $15,000 in payments from an anti-health care lobbying firm she started."
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/clarence-thomas-health-care-reform-weiner
He should have recused himself.
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)Apparently the last time Justice Thomas spoke during an oral argument was in 2007. He has been silent for FIVE years.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)No mercy from the political cartoonists...
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3/28/12 3:45 PM EDT
Justice Antonin Scalia wonders if partisanship is behind the 26-state lawsuit against President Obama's signature health care law:
JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Clement, I didn't take the time to figure this out, but maybe you did. Is there any chance at all that 26 States opposing it have Republican governors and all of the states supporting it have Democratic governors? Is that possible?
MR. CLEMENT: There's a correlation, Justice Scalia.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Yes
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/scalia-is-partisanship-at-work-in-health-care-challenge-118986.html
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)in order to appear nonpartisan? If so, it's really unconvincing, imo.
allagash
(1 post)When Silent Cal Coolidge died, H.L. Mencken supposedly asked "How can they tell?". Maybe C. Thomas needs to have his pulse checked - and then be replaced. How can it be that he asks no questions? Obviously he's already decided - or will as soon as Scalia tells him what to think. There is no impeachment process for the Supremes, is there?
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)and Scalia votes for him.
spanone
(135,861 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)And NOBODY disturbs a sleeping SC "Justice," although when referring to Clarence Thomas,
the only Justice that his mindset resembles is Buford T. Justice.
Javaman
(62,533 posts)confirmation to the bench.