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Originally posted by sgtclub
If he were a liberal, you would be accused of being a racist.
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Apologies if my attempt at a joke strikes anyone this way.
But I think Clarence Thomas, ironically, would agree that to call an intellectual light weight anything other than an intellectual light weight because he is black would be the height of racism.
The man adheres to an original intent kind of jurisprudence that is difficult to reconcile with the real world; it is an ivory tower way of reading the constitution that disregards the fundamental changes, such as the development of the widespread use of corporations that has been much discussed on this board over the last week or two, that requires the development of judicial thinking. Indeed, in my mind it is a virtual rejection of the very legal tradition of English common law that the founders were focused on preserving.
