Geee Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 American Thinker:The conventional wisdom on Justice Clarence Thomas is that he is an unimaginative intellectual featherweight and a clown. The way in which his reputation was traduced in his confirmation hearings and his notorious lack of interest in participating in oral arguments are cited as evidence. A new look at Justice Thomas's influence of the Court by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker sets this condescending notion on its head. From Walter Russell Mead's New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of DoomIf Toobin's revisionist take is correct, (and I defer to his knowledge of the direction of modern constitutional thought) it means that liberal America has spent a generation mocking a Black man as an ignorant fool, even as constitutional scholars stand in growing amazement at the intellectual audacity, philosophical coherence and historical reflection embedded in his judicial work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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