Clarence Thomas: My Job Was Worth the Struggle
To do what is right on the Supreme Court, 26 years after a brutal and partisan confirmation process, was ultimately worth the fight, Justice Clarence Thomas told Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Wednesday night.
And veterans played a key role in his belief that the fight in 1991 was worth it, Thomas said on “The Ingraham Angle.”
Ingraham asked Thomas about what he said in the fall of 1991, when Democrats brought a witness, Anita Hill, before the Senate Judiciary Committee to accuse him of sexual harassment. Ingraham played the footage.
"No job is worth what I have been through," said Thomas in 1991. "No job."
Yet Thomas won confirmation, and as a conservative, helped shape law for America. Thomas told Ingraham the struggle of veterans help him see it was indeed worth it.
"I think we are called to do certain things," said Thomas. "When we do Wounded Warriors events or ... Wreaths Across America, what do you tell the widows, the families of the fallen? That you were too afraid to go through a little bit of uncertainty, a little bit of difficulty, to do a job like this? When they actually were in harm's way? What do you tell the young man who is a double amputee, because of war? That you were afraid to go through that? I don't think anyone would choose to go through unpleasantness, but if it has to be that, to do what is right, then so be it."
But the insults from the Left continued. Thomas, only the second black justice in history, only has a small exhibit at the newly built Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Thomas said that doesn't bother him.
Yet a Supreme Court without a friend does bother him. There is a big emptiness to the Supreme Court almost two years after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, he told Ingraham.
"Without him, it's a very different court without him," said Thomas, appearing on "The Ingraham Angle."
Ingraham also quizzed Thomas about claims that Thomas, a conservative, was a puppet of Scalia, who was considered the chief conservative of the court. The two men were independent of each other, he told Ingraham.
"Justice Scalia did not follow me, and I didn't follow him," said Thomas. "And I daresay nobody up there follows another person."
Asked about by his judicial philosophy, Thomas, widely viewed as a conservative and a strict constructionist, said it is quite simple.
"I think it's get it right," said Thomas. "I think we have to be careful not to take outcomes that we want and backwash that into the process of decisionmaking. So you don't reach a decision and then force the process. You use the process ... You don't justify the outcome, you reason to the outcome."
Thomas said he defends the Constitution.
"Some people have decided that the Constitution isn't worth defending, that history isn't worth defending," said Thomas. "Certainly, if you're in my position, they have to be worth defending."
Ingraham and Thomas go way back, when, after she graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, she clerked for Thomas in 1992. Thomas endured brutal confirmation hearings in 1991, but won approval from the Senate.
Ingraham kicked off her new 10 p.m. show on Fox News Channel on Monday, and that was apparently enough to lure Thomas into the studio.
Of the nine Supreme Court justices, the only other top jurists to have spoken to media in the last two years were Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
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Clarence Thomas finally granted an interview with his former law clerk. He described what he went through at the hands of ideological zealots during his confirmation along with a bit of his philosophy
Funny how, if you make your money in Hollywood, all you need is one accusation of sexual harassment and you lose everything. For conservative republicans, the accusation is motivation to make one a Supreme Court justice or a president. As long as this man is on the court, he will be an embarrassment to the nation.
Lol, you are comparing Clarence Thomas to people like Weinstein?
Hilarious!
Yes, and to Trump. The "crime" is the same.
A ridiculous and irrational comparison to make on almost every level but considering the source ...... okay i get it.
Sexual - definition of sexual by The Free Dictionary
he "crime" is the same.
Weinstein is accused of multiple rapes.
Please show the rape accusations against Thomas.
The important part is they are all accusations. There is no evidence that any of these claims occurred. So, I could claim that Thomas was a murderer, would that make him worse?
Is this a joke? Weinstein's harassment of women has been an open secret for years. I, who don't follow Hollywood at all, heard the jokes about him on shows like Family Guy. Nothing happened to either Weinstein until there were multiple accusations of actual rape and assault. People have been accusing Weinstein for years and "everyone" knew, but nothing happened.
Marc Singer has been accused of child rape. What's happened to his career? Oh yeah, he just produced another mega block buster. Has Roman the child rapist Polanski received another award from Hollywood today? Or are they waiting until tomorrow to testify to what a genius he his. What about the producer of Nickelodeon television show who's been accused by many as a molesting his child stars? Any professional issues? But Brittany Spears' minor pregnant sister sure left Hollywood pretty quietly and quickly, huh?
Truthfully, what people in Hollywood do has little effect on me. However, when the accused is a president or a Supreme Court judge, it does have a major effect.
Yes, the rape and sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton and the liberals embrace of him started a domino effect that led to our present state of affairs.
Except for the fact that Clinton was impeached, Thomas's ass is still sitting on the SCOTUS
Sure guys, keep trying to define sexual harassment for us. Because of course a republican/conservative/evangelical would NEVER harass a woman or grab a pussy or make crude sexual comments without provocation or permission.
Apparently Hollywood Types......knew NOTHING......until ...... Some-"ONE" DID ?
The flood gates are now open.
I wonder if Frankenwhine was a Republican/Conservative/Evangelical.
I suppose that would be the Republican/Conservative/Evangelical Guys" fault too.
Trump was a democrat in good standing when he made the grab'm by the pussy statement and it was covered up by a liberal news network for years. It only became a story when he ran against the spouse
of the accused rapist who spent her career attacking and vilifying the women her husband assaulted.
What's a Republican to do, support a guy who made a demeaning generalized statement, or the woman who enabled a sexual predator and demonized his victims?
Stop trying to make it political. Sexual harassment is everywhere, in every party, in every race, in every kind of business. Your point is asinine because it is utterly meaningless. It enables you to pretend this problem can be marginalized so you aren't uncomfortable with the truth.
He's a true hero.