Current Events > Clarence Thomas attacks Brown v. Board of Education ruling

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Because of course he did. And to think, this jackass took Thurgood Marshall's seat on the SCOTUS.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-racial-segregation

Short version;
"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race.

Why it matters: Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a concurrence opinion that allowed South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that critics say discriminated against Black voters.

Driving the news: The court "took a boundless view of equitable remedies" in the Brown ruling, wrote Thomas, who in 1991 replaced Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall the first Black Supreme Court Justice and the lead lawyer in the Brown case.
Those remedies came through "extravagant uses of judicial power" to end racial segregation in the 1950s and 60s, Thomas wrote.
Federal courts have limited power to grant equitable relief, "not the flexible power to invent whatever new remedies may seem useful at the time," he said, justifying his opinion to keep a predominantly white congressional district in South Carolina.

Zoom out: The U.S. marked the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling last week.
The 9-0 decision declared the "separate but equal" doctrine unconstitutional and helped usher in the Civil Rights Movement, though it took two decades to dismantle some school segregation policies.

What an asshole

Uncle Tom doesn't even begin to apply to him.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

not the flexible power to invent whatever new remedies may seem useful at the time

He said, without a hint of irony.

I'm sorry Clearance, what was your position on Corporations being people, again?

You really have to have your head up your ass when you think a 9-0 ruling was in the wrong..

Kick this bitch out of the court

Clarence Uncle Thomas, use his middle name

Man really likes to sell out his own race for money

I almost want to feel sorry for him. He obviously looks in the mirror and absolutely hates the color looking back at him.

DarthAragorn posted...

Clarence Uncle Thomas, use his middle name

His mom's maiden name was Ruckus

People need to vote enough seats in congress that want to start impeaching these obviously not qualified, wholely corrupt and in thomas' case uncle tom, ass dude. He hates himself and others that look like him.

Now all we need is for him to go after inter-racial marriage.

Scotus isnt legitimate anymore disband it tbh

A fucking Black man attacking dismantling anti segregation law...He thinks he is too rich and useful too end up under the boot. The ones carrying water for the MAGA fascists are simply going to be the last to be dealt with. When the MAGAs have everything dominated he too will be discarded by them. They won't stop at eradicating LGBTQ+ people. Their hate is much broader and deeper then that.

He belongs in prison for crimes against humanity. MAGA ass corrupt piece of shit. A traitor to his station, his nation and more. I hate his vile self serving ass with all my being.

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Or he's just generally a hateful, sadistic asshole who gets off on abusing any amount of power he gets to hurt as many people as he possibly can.

this is fucking crazy

Attacking one of the most important rulings that literally allowed black people to be considered equal as people AS A BLACK MAN is just I dont even have the words for it

Does he not realize that in part because of this ruling he is allowed to hold his position in the first place? Hes apparently okay that he wouldve been treated as inferior simply because of his skin color. This is sickening.

They're not gonna stop until nobody but white males have power and prestige in American society again like the 50s and below

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

this is fucking crazy

Attacking one of the most important rulings that literally allowed black people to be considered equal as people AS A BLACK MAN is just I dont even have the words for it

Does he not realize that in part because of this ruling he is allowed to hold his position in the first place?

The letter of the law and licking his GOP bribers boots are more important to him then the spirit of the law and the freedom of black people and other minorities.

Calling Thomas a piece of shit would be insulting to actual shit.

Were_Wyrm posted...

You really have to have your head up your ass when you think a 9-0 ruling was in the wrong..

You're talking about a guy who's been on the wrong side of every 7-2 ruling his court's ever issued.

I wonder if mfs like Clarence Thomas ever think about how better the world is going to be when mfs like him are gone.

How much more regressive can this court actually get between this and potentially axing gay marriage?

...on second thought, I'm not sure I want to know.

Can we not do the whole "Uncle Tom" shit

emblem-man posted...

Can we not do the whole "Uncle Tom" shit

That's what we keep telling him!

GrandConjuraton posted...

How much more regressive can this court actually get between this and potentially axing gay marriage?

...on second thought, I'm not sure I want to know.

https://fox59.com/indiana-news/sen-mike-braun-said-interracial-marriage-ruling-should-be-left-to-states/

In a media call on Tuesday, U.S Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind) said that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage in a ruling that stretches back to Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

emblem-man posted...

Can we not do the whole "Uncle Tom" shit

We aren't doing anything. Clarence Thomas is.

emblem-man posted...

Can we not do the whole "Uncle Tom" shit

can you get off your knees to billionaires and fascists maybe

emblem-man posted...

Can we not do the whole "Uncle Tom" shit

Can we not do the whole "Boot licking apologetics for fascists" shit?

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Can we not do the whole "Boot licking apologetics for fascists" shit?

thats his whole schtick

darkace77450 posted...

https://fox59.com/indiana-news/sen-mike-braun-said-interracial-marriage-ruling-should-be-left-to-states/

FFS.

It's a travesty that an institution this illegitimate actually holds this much sway.

Biden replacing this shit head would do wonders for America.

My question is: What's the point of the country if even literal human rights should vary from state to state?

Why not just secede?

Biden replacing all 6 of them would greatly help America

HighSeraph posted...

Man really likes to sell out his own race for money

He has an entire, fucked up, "escalated oppression is the only way for black people to thrive" ideology.

red states would die fast without the union they need our welfare

Smashingpmkns posted...

I wonder if mfs like Clarence Thomas ever think about how better the world is going to be when mfs like him are gone.

He probably thinks that it's one less black person, so he'd be all for it.

Is he EVER on the right side of an issue?

My question is, do they expect people to just let important cases like this get overturned and do nothing in response? The blow back from Roe vs Wade was pretty big, but touching civil rights would be a full fledge response that would likely result in violent action most likely.

why does the GOP want to even return to those times?

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Can we not do the whole "Boot licking apologetics for fascists" shit?

JasonSehorn posted...

can you get off your knees to billionaires and fascists maybe

There are enough ways to talk shit about Thomas without using a fucking racial slur/pejorative!!!

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Those same people said the same about Roe, they were always full of shit

emblem-man posted...

my thoughts exactly