Did the absurd mess that is Thomas's majority opinion in Bruen get discussed? (Bruen struck down a law, and one need only to look at the concurrence by Kavanaugh to see what a decent majority option striking the law down could have looked like).
That particular case was not discussed. Dr. Loury suggested that Thomas was ”one of us” (a black man), therefore Thomas should not be exiled despite his rulings on things like the Shelby case.
Thomas has views that fall outside what is considered to be the norm for many Black people. Liz Cheney was removed from power in the Republican Party for challenging Trump. Republicans label those with outlier views RINOs.
Thomas gets pushback. Cheney gets pushback. Water is wet.
We built a gigantic industry on that basis, of which Kennedy is a part. He's right about one thing, however. Once you invoke or perpetuate the identity politics of WE/US of whatever race, there's fealty or betrayal in relation to the group. You will then misunderstand what group you actually belong to because your identity is nostalgic and not based on the people with whom you share things in common now, rather than the ones you had back on the South side.
Thomas' problem is not that, that's for sure. His problem is being a guy who benefited from reverse discrimination, sexually harassed a junior colleague, then got another racialist nod from GHW Bush to be further elevated, all while appearing to be a compassionless, corrupt dirtbag who just has one opinion I happen to agree with.
For Randall Kennedy it seems that it is always 1955.
Kennedy points out the flaws in Thomas’ jurisprudence.
The rest of us look at what Conservatives put forth as policy and laugh. They can’t even agree on a budget amongst themselves..
DeSantis is dead in the water
Haley can’t give a straight answer.
I haven't gotten to this one yet to listen to.
Did the absurd mess that is Thomas's majority opinion in Bruen get discussed? (Bruen struck down a law, and one need only to look at the concurrence by Kavanaugh to see what a decent majority option striking the law down could have looked like).
That particular case was not discussed. Dr. Loury suggested that Thomas was ”one of us” (a black man), therefore Thomas should not be exiled despite his rulings on things like the Shelby case.
Thomas has views that fall outside what is considered to be the norm for many Black people. Liz Cheney was removed from power in the Republican Party for challenging Trump. Republicans label those with outlier views RINOs.
Thomas gets pushback. Cheney gets pushback. Water is wet.
We built a gigantic industry on that basis, of which Kennedy is a part. He's right about one thing, however. Once you invoke or perpetuate the identity politics of WE/US of whatever race, there's fealty or betrayal in relation to the group. You will then misunderstand what group you actually belong to because your identity is nostalgic and not based on the people with whom you share things in common now, rather than the ones you had back on the South side.
Thomas' problem is not that, that's for sure. His problem is being a guy who benefited from reverse discrimination, sexually harassed a junior colleague, then got another racialist nod from GHW Bush to be further elevated, all while appearing to be a compassionless, corrupt dirtbag who just has one opinion I happen to agree with.