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Judges are more influential and trial than ever, as Judge Clarence Thomas faces an attack from the liberal faction (including a recent petition from the George Washington University faculty to dismiss him). A government expert told Fox News.
Mark Paoletta told Fox News Digital, “The left has been chasing Clarence Thomas since December 1980, just as he was trying to join the Reagan administration, and they hate him.” Said. Paoletta was in the George HW Bush administration during Thomas’ confirmation and helped him find a job.
“They tried to destroy him. They tried to alienate him,” Paoletta said. “And thirty years later, he’s not just standing strong. His influence is at the top.”
Conservatives, especially those dissatisfied with the centrist ruling by Judge John Roberts, praised Thomas as the cornerstone of the court’s conservatives this term.
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His most important written opinion was the majority in the New York gun case last month and was seen as a major victory for supporters of Article 2 of the Constitutional Amendment. But perhaps his biggest victory was the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade case.
According to Paoletta, Thomas has been asking the courts for decades to do so.
“He didn’t write it, but the court was strongly influenced by Judge Thomas. In my opinion, the courage he showed in law is the majority of the current kind,” Paoletta said. .. “Judge Thomas has been writing about overthrowing Law for 30 years.”
In particular, Thomas was the highest justice in the majority of the Dobbs cases. Judge John Roberts wrote a consensus that he upheld the Mississippi law underlying the proceedings, but did not overturn Law as a whole. That is, Thomas assigned the majority opinion to Arito.
“On so many topics, he was a lonely opponent on a regular basis, or was only attended by Judge Scalia, but now the majority share a commitment to originalism and the rule of law. “I’m the leader of the judge,” Severino, chairman of the Carrie Judicial Crisis Network, told Fox News Digital. Severino was a Thomas clerk.
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“In the case of Brune this quarter, he wrote a majority opinion clarifying Article 2 of the Constitutional Amendment,” Severino added. “Finally, the court finally admitted that the First Amendment protects the right to anonymous speech, which Thomas was previously the only voice to defend.”
As the liberals continued to intensify their attacks on him, Thomas’ influence grew. Justice has been severely criticized for his wife Virginia being close to an ally of former President Donald Trump, who was trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election on the basis of false allegations of being stolen.
He also protested outside his home and saw harsh words from former law school classmate Hillary Clinton.
A group of students not only supported Thomas’s overthrow of Law, but also wrote a consensus that other cases under the same legal theory, including homosexual rights, need to be revisited. Circulated a petition requesting dismissal.
The university refused to remove Thomas from class. “It’s one of the most popular courses in Golden Week, which means we have a waiting list to attend,” Paoletta said.
“This term shows the tremendous impact of Thomas justice …” Paoletta said. “This term, with the court uniting with him, everything is bearing fruit.”
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Democrats, on the other hand, see the term as an indication that a conservative majority of courts use their power to improperly push the party’s agenda.
“This quarter, we questioned whether the majority of Republicans would use any restraints on the implementation of their radical agenda,” said Brian Fallon, managing director of the liberal group Demand Justice. rice field. “In just one word, they shattered the country’s approach to the right to abortion, climate change, prevention of gun violence, tribal sovereignty and many other important issues.”
“One of the destabilizations is not only the Roe v. Wade case, but also the US Supreme Court’s exorbitant action against essentially challenging the right to privacy,” Biden said Thursday. Stated.
David Rutz and Bailee Hill from Fox News contributed to this report.