And He Wound Up On the Wrong End of an Opinion

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that, yes, of course a law meant to keep domestic abusers from purchasing a gun was constitutional and that gun rights did not extend to anyone known to commit abuse against spouses or children.  Even Samuel Alito wasn't going to say otherwise.

The ruling was 8-1.

Who was crazy enough to dissent?

This guy.

Clarence Thomas, who most likely did sexually harass Anita Hill despite his assertions to the contrary, demonstrated once again his lack of concern for women not his wife.  Solid and steadfast in that the Second Amendment is absolute - especially the second clause, which does not mention a well-regulated militia - he offered a dissenting opinion that made his majority opinion declaring the ban on bump stocks an unlawful interpretation of machine-gun regulatory laws seem positively Periclean.

Recently, an attempt has been made - primarily by historian Jon Meacham, but also by others - to rehabilitate George Herbert Walker Bush's record as the forty-first President of the United States because of his low-key diplomacy and his actions to get the U.S. to make the transition out of the Cold War, among other things.  None of these efforts, however, will ever succeed, as it was he who put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court for purely political reasons (the second black Supreme Court justice, he repealed Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice).   There was no bus big enough to hold the judges who in 1991 were more qualified for the Supreme Court than Thomas, whereas you could have counted Thomas' qualifications for the Court on one hand with three fingers to spare.  The first qualification was that he is black.    

The second qualification was that he had a pulse. 

Oh yeah, about the ruling on presidential immunity . . ..  The Supreme Court secretary who schedules releases of rulings is Helen Waite.  If you're waiting for the ruling on presidential immunity, go to Helen Waite. 

Tomorrow Thomas turns 76, an age when most jurists have long since retired.