The silent justice speaks
“So why do you beat up on people if you already know? I don’t know, because I don’t beat up on ‘em. I refuse to participate. I don’t like it, so I don’t do it. …All nine of us are in the same building. If we want to sway each other we know where we are. We don’t need oral arguments to do that. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”
~ Justice Clarence Thomas on his 3-year silence during Supreme Court oral arguments (AP)


February 21st, 2011 at 8:46 am
[...] people if you already know? I don’t know, because I don’t beat up on ‘em,” Thomas said in an Associated Press report in 2009. “I refuse to participate. I don’t like it, so I don’t do it. …All nine of [...]