NHLycan
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I'm not sure it's possible to know the true authorship of USSC opinions.
The consensus is that in our era, the clerks do most of the actual work of writing and reasoning. Those kids are smart. And ambitious. So the opinions the clerks .. let's use "draft", for the supremes are usually well written.
Naturally there's variability between justices. Some take more of a direct hand than others. And some opinions are of greater significance or politically charged and require more polish than others.
Which brings me to Justice Thomas's most recent opinion.
It's a little strange.
We already know he's pro-life. And passionately so.
But this is like something out of a Infowars fever dream. It's conspiratorial, paranoid, angry, dishonest and poorly phrased. It suggests that black women have abortions in order to eliminate the black race. I'm not kidding. It's that weird and insular.
And one suspects, written entirely by the justice himself. If clerks did have a hand in it, they may not have been the best and brightest.
He comes across as the embarrassing uncle at Thanksgiving. He's become an intellect completely comfortable in right wing lunacy. Which is a kind of honesty if you think about it. He's ceased to care about being appropriate.
I'd be uncomfortable sharing a meal with the gentleman at this point. He's coming unhinged in public.
History generally calls out McReynolds as our worst justice in terms of personality. Justice Thomas may unseat him.
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