Cindy Adams: Supreme Court Justices Disapprove Of Justice Thomas's Book

SUPREME Court Justice Clarence Thomas' memoir "My Grandfather's Son" is doing well everyplace but in the Supreme Court. With the utmost respect, the Supremes are supreme. Yes, the president of the United States of America is commander in chief of the Army, so there's always ammunition to protect his back but - theoretically - if the Supremes gave the Prez an order he - theoretically - has to obey. They are supreme, thus entitled to all the pomp and perks and poop. However, there exist eyewitnesses and earwitnesses to stuff some of them have been known to demand.

One of the things they are known to not like is for one of them to rise above the others of them. So, thrilled they're not with the success of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas' autobio. They've sniffed about a precedent that behooves sitting justices to not capitalize whilst on the bench. Phrases swatted about are "unseemly" and "breach of decorum." Besides unraveling his life story, he has also delved into the ways and hows of the Court. They feel it "irresponsible" for a sitting Supreme Court Justice to write about The Process.

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Comments

[JScott]

Oh please they're whining about him, where was the whining when Scalia wasn't behaving?
At least Sandra had the class to at least retire first.

[ChiMan1]

MetalDog, call Mommy your Meds are ready, then you can take a Nappy (not as in hair).

[ChiMan1]

KatieKatie, please TELL US poor people WHAT makes U Happy ??? we can only guess. . . oooh that's wierd . . . are you sure?

[ChiMan1]

So many Liberal sour pusses. You know if you all had jobs, you would not have so much time to get ALL WORKED UP! Peace be with you.

[noamjunior]

the problem isn't unemployed libs - Its employed cons who would rather sit around all day taling about porno than do any work
Thomas' intellectual laziness and willingness to blame everyone else but himself are key CON traits

[jbeach]

Blah blah.

Thanks for the 4th largest national debt in American history. We and our kids will be solving that for you, as well as global warming and transitioning beyond petroleum.

You know, the survival of the US and the world. Nothing to get worked up about. We'll handle it - because conservatives will just continue to be in denial.

[GenXLiberal]

We'll be fine just so long as we learn our lessons. I have great doubt in the electorate because of the massive amount of misinformation the amerifascist press (department of propaganda for Premier Bush). It seems you can make anybody believe anything just so long as they don't ask difficult questions. I hope I'm wrong.

[ScorchedEarth]

you know what the best thing about liberals raging about Justice Thomas' book? The fact that he has a lifetime appointment on the Court.

Justice Thomas, may you a long, productive, working life!

[noamjunior]

Uncle Clarence is too addicted to porn to develop any original thought on his own- I wouldn't call mindlessly voting along with Massah Scalia productive

[ScorchedEarth]

well, I wouldn't call legislating a liberal agenda from the bench very constitutional, but that's just me.

[jbeach]

Uncle Justice Thomas, you're an interesting man. May you continue to reveal conservative ideology for the tragic Stockholm syndrome that it is.

[TruEngineHearing]

He was a hole filler, placed there by a brand of American that does not believe in government as an active force for the betterment of life, but rather a cursed thing that needs to be controlled, throttled, and reduced to a police force tasked with protecting property.

The people that gave us Thomas are the enemy.

[noamjunior]

well isn't that the con paradox?

Cons always say that government is to lazy and corrupt to be trusted - and whenever put into positions of power those cons always manage to prove themselves right

[DMcD]

I not only "disapprove" of poor Clarences' book of rantings , I "wholeheartedly disapprove" of the entire Supreme Court (as currently controlled) . Impeach these bastards as well.

[BARRISTER]

YABA DABA DOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOO!!!!­!!!!!!

[JoeBlough]

did Thomas confess to the pubic hair on the Coke can?

[shag11]

He was unqualified in the first place. As a black man, I was appalled at G.H.W. Bush choice of Thomas, as a replacement for the regal Thurgood Marshall. It was shameless, and his lack of integrity bares this out.

[Chris11]

Clarence Thomas isn't the only horribly unqualified choice gw bush has made. Look at Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales.

How can we expect anything better from an idiotic president who thinks gawd talks to him?

Thomas sounds like a crybaby who thinks he's the only to have had a tough time in his life. To him I say, grow up, get past it. Life is tough for everybody, NOT just blacks. Quit whining.

[noamjunior]

That's the con playbook folks- put the most unqualified minority candidate you can find in positions of power and when their incompetence is revealed- just more ammunitions for their bigoted views

[Turnip]

Isn't it enough we are forced to abide by his ill-informed and unqualified opinions from the bench?

Must we be subjected to his perversion and self-pity in book form as well?

[1differentdrummer]

Only if you buy it.

[clarkbarr]

The only thing Thomas, Scalia and Kennedy deserve is impeachment.

[Pneumaticus]

Wasn't this book written by Lynne Cheney, or her ghost?

[noamjunior]

not unless their was some hot lesbo action- Lynne's literature trademark

[hjo4]

Clarence Thomas is a troubled man,I truly pity him.He's angry that he's a Black man.He harbors animosity for towards Blacks for the treatment he received as a child from a few Blacks.What a sad and unfortunate man he is.I hope he can recover from his self hatred and the dark place he lives in.

[noamjunior]

or better yet- he could jump off a bridge and put the rest of us out of his misery

[KatieKatie]

More than anything, Thomas and the other three surviving justices who allowed Bush to steal the election in 2000 should be removed from the bench for judicial malpractice. If nothing else, they should have erred on the side of caution and allowed a recount to take place, but they and the neocons thought that their "permanent Republican majority" would carry them through any sort of scrutiny. By the way, where is that scrutiny? Where are the hearings? Where are the prosecutions?

[williamina]

If I was you I would forget the whole recount issue. It was a Gore mistake, he should have petitioned the courts for a full recount, not just specific counties. Anyway don't want to bore you with legalities, I just want to remind you to stay focused. Not on the recount but;
Impeach Bush/Cheney now 2008!!!

[KatieKatie]

It always amazes me that people like JohnKemp choose to hang out in places like this, where they are clearly in the minority. I don't hang out in places that extoll the thinking of Limbaugh and Coulter; I would never be able to influence the "thinking" of denizens of such forums; Kemp is never going to change the minds of clear-thinking people who read and enjoy the Huffington Post. Kemp, please go play with people who see the world from your same, if mistaken, point of view.

[noamjunior]

"I don't hang out in places that extoll the thinking of Limbaugh and Coulter"

good for you- I don't hang out in truck stop mensrooms either

[NuAgeDok]

I guess it would be fair to say that the culture of mediocrity started with Daddy Bush.

Not only has Thomas been a singularly unimpressive member of the court, but in spending most of his life lamenting the fact that he is black and trying to compensate for that, he has wasted his chance to make a real mark on the court in the tradition of Thurgood Marshal.

I'm not saying that he would have been a better judge if he had been more liberal, but his opinions have in large part been mean-spirited and punitive. He has defined himself by means of his extreme efforts to avoid stereotypy and in the end has become an even more tragic caricature.

If anyone on the Supreme Court has a right to be cheesed off at Thomas, it is not because of his one-upmanship, but because he has disgraced the Court with his whining, hair-shirt mentality and of course because we all know he was lying about the Anita Hill affair which he dredged up once again.

[brooklyncitizen]

DO NOT speak of Thurgood Marshal in the same breath as Clarence Thomas.

Also, Thomas is just like most white Republicans : completely lacking in character and integrity.

[noamjunior]

when you said "Thomas is just like most white Republicans" - i thought you meant he was a total pervert