My column today for The American Spectator discusses the pirouette our progressive friends in the media have done regarding the intelligence and influence of Clarence Thomas.
For two decades, progressives have claimed that he is intellectually unfit to sit on the Court. They have repeatedly told us that Thomas is, as one commentator recently phrased it, “a dunce and a worm.” However, as myriad constitutional challenges to Obamacare work their way through the courts toward an inevitable showdown before the Supreme Court, the dunce’s intellectual powers have somehow improved.
This miraculous metamorphosis was recently described in the New Yorker:
According to the author of this remarkable piece of instant revisionism, Jeffrey Toobin, ‘In several of the most important areas of constitutional law, Thomas has emerged as an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court … when it comes to the free-speech rights of corporations, the rights of gun owners, and, potentially, the powers of the federal government … the majority has followed where Thomas has been leading for a decade or more.’
It would appear that Justice Thomas is the Charlie Gordon of the Supreme Court. To read more about how ObamaCare has cured Justice Thomas of the stupidity the left has attributed to him since 1991, click here.
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