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OA698: Will Clarence Thomas Break the Internet? (Probably Not.)

Opening Arguments

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Clarence Thomas and the Roberts Court Meme

The law meme is that Clarence Thomas doesn't ask questions from the bench. That was true for a decade, but it hasn't been true since COVID. He deliberately writes lengthy concurrences or descents when the Supreme Court does basic administrative stuff in which he uses those concurrences to lecture his fellow justices on his own very weird views about the law. It's still scary, but never thought I'd be nostalgic for 2019.

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