Linda Greenhouse
It’s not easy to get to the right of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. when it comes to the rights of criminal defendants. In fact, for a long time I thought it was impossible. The late Justice Antonin Scalia’s robust view of aspects of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments led him to vote to overturn criminal sentences with some regularity. Justice Clarence Thomas, who views civil forfeiture as imposing an “excessive fine” in violation of the Eighth Amendment, has occasionally done so as well. Justice Alito: a millimeter this side of never......To Read More.....
My Take - This left leaning writer attempts to defame Thomas because he refuses to be a modern Thurgood Marshall - a black jurist - and quite frankly, not a very good one. He was arrogant and was more concerned with making law than judging law. Thomas is the real legal intellect on the Supreme Court. He's not a show boat, he asks few questions because he understands the issues before the court, and he's only concerned with the law as it's written, not how he thinks it should be written - or in the case of four of the other members - and at time all seven members of the court - rewritten. Scalia was considered the great conservative intellect on the court. He wasn't! Thomas was and still is. Thomas has endured outrageous and unjustified scorn with dignity and grace. The rest are nothing short of politcal hacks on far too many occasions. As for the rest of the federal judiciary - I recommend reading WHORES: Why and How I Came to Fight theEstablishment, by Larry Klayman.
It's long overdue for a 28th Amendment.
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