Justice Thomas’ Wrong-Headed Attack on Progressivism

Clarence Thomas’s Birthday Gift to America

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has a pretty good claim on the title of the greatest living American. The life he has lived, and the work he has done and continues to do, tell a story of how American ideals can shape an American life and enable a man to rise from oppression into freedom and then commit himself to lifting others too. And Justice Thomas has always been remarkably aware of how his life has been shaped by those ideals, and by …

Justice Thomas Warns Progressivism Opposes America’s Founding Principles

Justice Clarence Thomas is celebrating America’s 250th birthday by urging Americans to return to our nation’s founding principles. Thomas has been one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most steadfast constitutionalist judges since being nominated to the Court by former President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Now the Court’s fourth longest-serving justice, Thomas was famous for his 17 years of near silence on the bench during the Court’s oral arguments, st…

Justice Thomas Sounds the Alarm

Clarence Thomas Pokes The 'Progressive' Bear » Sons of Liberty Media

He’s ‘totally right to remind Americans about our founding principles and the courage we need to hold on to them’ It’s not often that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas speaks in public. Clarence Thomas has now served longer than anyone else on the court – since the fall of 1991. What he said last week should …

"None of this, of course, was an improvement on the principles of the Declaration [of Independence]." - Justice Clarence Thomas

“European thinkers have long criticized America for remaining trapped in a Lockeian world with its weak decentralized government and strong individual rights. They say our 18th-Century declaration has prevented us from progressing to higher forms of government. But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockeian bonds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx, and their followers. Fascism, which after all was national socialism, triggered …

Justice Thomas’ wrong-headed attack on progressivism

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives.In a speech on April 15 at the University of Texas, Justice Clarence Thomas said that the rise of progressivism since the beginning of the 20th century has caused great harm. Specifically, in what was ostensibly about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration…