Toto

After the Senate confirmation hearing on Thomas' appointment (the "high tech lynching"), a law was passed making your video rental records private, as private as the confessional.

I don't know of an opinion by Thomas outlining his theories, but I think he has given some speeches or written articles on "natural law". I'm too nauseated at the thought to try to look for them.

hezekiah jones

Thank god. I rented Dazed and Confused once.

GaryP

I'm not sure if Thomas has ever authored an opinion.

I have heard that he very rarely, if ever, asks a questions during arguments.

Buffman

I found this an interesting read, not so much because it provided any new insights into Justice Thomas, but because of the organization that produced it.

<a href="http://www.claremont.org/publications/morel1.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.claremont.org/publications/morel1.cfm</a>

After reviewing the article, click on the "About Us" and discover the new kind of slick cover statement of a religious right wing organization.
Try to find any mention of religion or Christianity. It is the same kind of verbage being used by the "Intelligent Design" advocates. These are highly educated, intellectual, professional, well organized, funded and led supporters of a "Christan Nation" persuasion. (Note how they mention the "Heritage Foundation.")

hezekiah jones

Lots. Although I have a feeling Thomas' clerks are among the hardest working people in Washington. Here's a nifty page from polisci.com:

<a href="http://www.polisci.com/almanac/judicial/justice/thomas.htm" target="_blank">Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice</a>

Note the extremely high correlation between Thomas and Scalia.

I think this is true. I don't think he answered too many questions at his nomination hearings either.

The Resistance

Your gun won't be effective. Remember, anytine a Christian is shot it a Bible of a cross will always stop it.

Oresta

Gary P quote:
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HJ
I think this is true. I don't think he answered too many questions at his nomination hearings either.

True. I read that while visiting a public school Thomas explained to the kids why he never spoke during court sessions. He said that he was self conscious about his speech as a kid from a lower class background and so was reluctant to speak out. That's why now he's silent in court. Lordy, if the man had been under oath, he'd have perjured himself again, right in front of the children.

Oresta

First,
A corrected account of my poor recollection of Thomas' explanation for his silence in court.

<a href="http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/thoughts/thomas.html" target="_blank">http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/thoughts/thomas.html</a>

My bias is showing as to how I remembered this account.

And here we have Thomas writing a majority opinion and managing to rationalize his way to breach in the Church and State wall in the Good News Club v. Milford Central High School case.

<a href="http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.lev.sctongoodnewsclub.html" target="_blank">http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.lev.sctongoodnewsclub.html</a>

This is, an ad hoc, hasty search to support my above assertion. I admit, my evaluation of Thomas on the Establishment Clause is an impressionist one, based on his shadowing of Scalia's hostile posture toward much of what has been traditionally protected by the First Amendment.

GaryP

Oresta-- (or anybody else)--

Do you know how that "Good News Club" ruling affects teacher participation?

I think I remember a piece about it on NPR in which the principal of the school was talking with the guy who organized the club. The principal knew him because the organizer is also a substitute teacher who sometimes works in the building where these club meetings were to take place.

I'm interested because in my town, the school allows a principal and teachers to participate in the "See you At the Pole" ritual. They have promised that it would be "well before or well after" the school day. The last two years this has meant about 45 minutes.

nogods4me

Welcome to Maryland, and we are supposed to be one of the more liberal states. cripes in Baltimore, there is practically a church on every freakin' corner.