Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared on Thursday to support Donald Trump’s push to curtail the power of federal judges.
The situation unfolded during Supreme Court arguments over an executive order signed by Trump that aimed to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizen or non-permanent resident parents.
The Department of Justice has argued that judges on lower-level courts should only have the power to issue rulings on a specific group of people involved in a suit, and not issue nationwide injunctions.
Justice Thomas appeared to support that argument when discussing the history of universal injunctions with Solicitor General D. John Sauer. Justice Thomas asked: “So, we survived until the 1960s without universal injunctions?”
Not that he cares, but we survived until the 1960s without civil rights.
We survived until the 1920s without women voting.
We survived until the 1970s without mobile phones.
We survived until the 1980s without the Internet.
That we survived until x without y is a meaningless argument. Times change, and things come into fruition that serve a valuable role in society. Deal with it, you fucking corrupt dinosaur.
Survivalist bias as a legal argument by a justice of the SCOTUS. Jesus. Maybe someone should ask him whether he’d even exist without civil rights.
IMO even holding a conversation with someone like this is a waste. His wife calls the shots. He’s just out doing what he’s told.