The drama queening and hyperbole have off the charts. Not just here but all over social media. ‘The justices lied!!!!!’ ‘They’re gonna take away everything!!!!’
When you have one side that only understands and responds to brute force...its just a matter of time until the side that prefers reason and dialogue has to respond in kind. We're getting there.
Oh, my!
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"Yes, we drank beer. ... Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer."
"...worked with and played with and coached with and dated and taught and gone to games with and had beers with..."
"...playing basketball, or hanging out and having some beers with friends as we talked about life and football and..."
"or just to meet up and have some beers, but none of those gatherings included the group of people that Dr. Ford has identified."
"I drank beer with my friends. ..Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer, but I did not drink beer to the point of ..and I never sexually assaulted anyone."
"Yes, we drank beer. .. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer."
"And we — yeah, we drank beer ..sometimes probably had too many beers and sometimes other people had too many beers," Kavanaugh said.
"We drank beer and still do. So whatever, yeah."
“I like beer. I don’t know if you do. .. I got a weak stomach, whether it's with beer ..or anything."
".. I think you've probably had beers, Senator."
From the September 12, 1991, hearing (accessed from the Nexis database, emphasis added):
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SEN. KOHL: All right, that's good. Judge Thomas, if I understand you correctly, you are going to leave behind almost all of your views about what type of society we ought to be and what type of policies we ought to apply... if you do leave so much of this behind, what's left?
JUDGE THOMAS: "Though it may sound rather strange to some individuals,
the kind of fighting and infighting and certainly the difficulty of battle, those kinds of battles in the political process I think are wearing,
and so it's not the confrontation that I ever relished or enjoyed. In fact, that is the opposite of my personality. I like to try to find consensus. So I don't miss
and did not miss on this court having those kinds of battles. We have reasoned, constructive debate on the court.
... I am concerned about the kids who didn't have the strong grandfather and strong grandparents to help them out of what I would consider a terrible, terrible fate. But you carry that feeling with you. You carry that strength with you. You carry those experiences with you.
I don't think you have to carry the battles with you. It's a different way."
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By Neil A. Lewis
"...That notion is reinforced by the accounts of several former law clerks at the Supreme Court who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Last year, his second full year on the Court, Justice Thomas began inviting clerks from other justices' chambers to meet with him, sometimes over lunch...
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Hope for Long Tenure
Last year, in a conversation with two of his own law clerks, recent law school graduates
chosen for their conservative views, Justice Thomas said he intended to remain on the Court until the year 2034.
Why that long? one asked. B
ecause that would give him a 43-year term, he replied, according to the clerk's account, explaining,
"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and
I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."
Immediately after the confirmation fight, Mrs. Thomas gave an interview to People magazine describing what she and her husband had just gone through. In the article, in the issue of Nov. 11, 1991,...
"Clarence will give everyone a fair day in court," Mrs. Thomas said.
"But I feel he doesn't owe any of the groups who opposed him anything."
