Your response sums up everything that I wanted to say about Justice Thomas with one exception : Justice Brennan is lionized today as a great former Justice because of his "social justice" jurisprudence which in my opinion is a total perversion of the original intent of the Constitution. Justice Thomas, on the other hand, has carried the baton of Justice Scalia and added greatly to the original intent jurisprudence. He will be long remembered by students and scholars of American Constitutional Law regardless of his race.
Your response sums up everything that I wanted to say about Justice Thomas with one exception : Justice Brennan is lionized today as a great former Justice because of his "social justice" jurisprudence which in my opinion is a total perversion of the original intent of the Constitution. Justice Thomas, on the other hand, has carried the baton of Justice Scalia and added greatly to the original intent jurisprudence. He will be long remembered by students and scholars of American Constitutional Law regardless of his race.
I agree, assuming American Constitutional Law as we know it survives the current left-wing assault.