January 17, 2005
Fundamentalism AND Racism! A Winning Combination in Alabama Following up on this post concerning the questionable beliefs of Justice Thomas about law and religion, it turns out that Thomas, the only African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, also swore in an avowed white supremacist to the Alabama Supreme Court.
Please, refer to him by his proper name: Justice Uncle Thomas.
It seems to me that an awful lot of avowed racists manage to get themselves elected to influential positions in the US.
Maybe waving the Stars and Bars just means he's big on Bo and Luke. (And some of Bo and Luke's best friends were black, right?)
Who wants a Coke?!
How come all their first names are Justice?
How weird is that?
I do feel dumb reposting this here as it doesn't directly respond to anything in either thread, but it was accidentally posted in the other Thomas thread:
Well, he is a grand-Uncle. I recall reading that he was raising a grand-nephew in an article about the amount of cash/gifts he has received in relation to others on the court. It was quite astonishing to me (over the six year-period reviewed, he was the top recipient outstripping the other justices by $30,000 or more), given how much judges in general (and their codified ethics rules) seem to be concerned with the appearance of things regardless of actual influence, and I imagine his gifts would be a big topic in any confirmation hearing for the position.
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