Tag archives for Clarence Thomas

V’s Legalese: Restoring Old Rights

Until recently, some of your 6th Amendment rights were not taken seriously.  Conservatives made a mess of the law.  Originalists fixed it. With this entry, I’m going to make you an expert on the 6th Amendment while making an enemy out of the ghost of William Rehnquist and Warren Berger.  And the way I’m going […]

The Wound at the Heart of the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

It hasn’t always been this way.  There is only one way to fix it.  And it ain’t pretty. The newest Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson – a former clerk of the Justice she has been chosen to replace, a federal practitioner of criminal defense, former member of the United States Sentencing Commission, and near-decade […]