Tuesday, December 9, 2008

WaPo: Procedure...

Let it always be said that Clarence Thomas is a second-rate Supreme Court Justice (and in my personal opinion a twit...and a lapdog to Scalia).

Let it also be said that uhhh...we're still waiting for a African-American to succeed Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. (Yeah, that's a nasty dig, but given his record...)

But let it also be said that Clarence Thomas's bringing the Obama Citizenship case may have been...procedural, and thus...

Can't believe I'm going to say this...normal.

All I have is this posting from Robert Barnes of the Washington Post (which doesn't exactly go into detail), but:

Right-wing blogs were outraged when Justice David H. Souter denied Donofrio's petition for an injunction, and left-wing blogs smelled trouble when Justice Clarence Thomas referred the matter to the full court for consideration.

In fact, both were routine procedures, as the court's action today shows. There were no recorded dissents to the decision dismissing the case.

Given the climate of today's attack dog politics, and the desire of both the left and the right to generate raw meat (even if Obama doesn't feed it to them), I think there is something to this story, but I would like to know more.

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