Thurgood Marshall’s health issues and retirement in 1991 feels like a massive butterfly effect moment. If he’d hung on for a year and a half (and he did live till days into Clinton‘s presidency), there’s no Clarence Thomas, potentially no Bush v. Gore. Course of history changes.
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Is anyone ever written in depth of the pathology that affects Clarence Thomas? Has there ever been a more self hating black man who also happens to be on the Supreme Court? He should have been a beacon of hope for people of color but instead he despises his own people.
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Assuming this is a sincere question, start here:https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/supreme-court-justice-most-say …
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At the time of appointment, Douglas to Stevens was similar. Over time, of course, that change didn't compare at all to Marshall-to-Thomas. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/18/upshot/potential-for-the-most-liberal-supreme-court-in-decades.html …pic.twitter.com/RHCde5lckP
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Can anyone think of a duo that has done more lasting harm to our government than Bushes I and II?
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Trump and McConnell
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Burger replaced Earl Warren
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They weren't actually as far apart as it seems in retrospect; certainly not as far apart as Thurgood Marshall and Thomas.
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Warren Burger for Rheinquest is right up there too.
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No. He's the prototype. He's made the conservative justices more right-wing and the centrists/liberal justices more left.
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