Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”
Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He made the comments pushing back on his critics in response to a question about working in a world that seems meanspirited.
“I think there’s challenges to that. We’re in a world and we — certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been — just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.
“But you have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things. But one you have to understand and accept the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that,” Thomas said.
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I mean look at where the fuckin needle is on the “is this too much?” Criticism of a corrupt scotus judge with a white supremacist wife guilty of encouraging sedition is nasty, deporting college students for protests to an active warzone where your very own country is enabling/encouraging genocide is maybe a plausible way to curb protests/free speech.
Yup everything’s fine.
Not just a warzone, but one the very one the protesters are protesting. I don’t understand why anyone sees this as clever… It’s just insanely fucking cruel and tonedef to say this.