"On Monday, Jill Abramson penned a scurrilous article for New York magazine titled “The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas”—the latest in a long line of shameful attacks on the Supreme Court justice.
Abramson claims she has new evidence that proves Thomas lied at his confirmation hearing and should be impeached. But, as commentators have pointed out, her article is simply “a boring rerun of discredited allegations from the 1990s, resurrected by a discredited journalist who was fired for lying and mistreating her own employees.”
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"But Abramson showed her hand later in the article, exposing her real motive for resurrecting these tired, discredited allegations:"
Abramson claims she has new evidence that proves Thomas lied at his confirmation hearing and should be impeached. But, as commentators have pointed out, her article is simply “a boring rerun of discredited allegations from the 1990s, resurrected by a discredited journalist who was fired for lying and mistreating her own employees.”
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"But Abramson showed her hand later in the article, exposing her real motive for resurrecting these tired, discredited allegations:"
"[A]s a crucial vote on the Supreme Court, [Thomas] holds incredible power over women’s rights, workplace, reproductive, and otherwise. His worldview, with its consistent objectification of women, is the one that’s shaping the contours of what’s possible for women in America today, more than that of just about any man alive, save for his fellow justices."
"It’s Thomas’ worldview and jurisprudence that are the real motivating factors in this latest attack.
Thomas defies stereotypes based on his upbringing and skin color. Though he came of age in the heyday of the civil rights movement, helping organize the Black Student Union at his college and even supporting Malcolm X and the radical Black Panthers, and spending much of his career before joining the bench steeped in civil rights issues, as a judge, Thomas strives to advance the Constitution as it was written and originally understood, rather than a race-based agenda.
Whether that means voting to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act and ruling against affirmative action in state schools (pleasing many conservatives) or rejecting mandatory minimum sentences (pleasing many liberals), Thomas is willing to strip away layer upon layer of previous Supreme Court decisions to get back to first principles—to the ire of many on the left."
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/21/the-clarence-thomas-witch-hunt-must-stop/
Thomas defies stereotypes based on his upbringing and skin color. Though he came of age in the heyday of the civil rights movement, helping organize the Black Student Union at his college and even supporting Malcolm X and the radical Black Panthers, and spending much of his career before joining the bench steeped in civil rights issues, as a judge, Thomas strives to advance the Constitution as it was written and originally understood, rather than a race-based agenda.
Whether that means voting to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act and ruling against affirmative action in state schools (pleasing many conservatives) or rejecting mandatory minimum sentences (pleasing many liberals), Thomas is willing to strip away layer upon layer of previous Supreme Court decisions to get back to first principles—to the ire of many on the left."
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/21/the-clarence-thomas-witch-hunt-must-stop/