impeach Justice Thomas?

[Ilya Somin]

I agree with much of what Steve Jamar says. I recently discussed the striking tendency of people to divide in their opinions of the Thomas-Hill controversy along ideological lines  in this Volokh Conspiracy post:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_30-2007_10_06.shtml#1191302418

Ilya Somin
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Eugene Robinson has a good take on this, I think.  As Robinson says,  
Thomas says both that the confirmation hearings were all about  
abortion and that they were all about race -- a lynching of him  
because he was black and thought differently that he supposedly is  
supposed to, and a targeting of him because of his position on abortion.

Robinson says it better and has some other good points.


http://tinyurl.com/3bu8ev

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/01/ 
AR2007100101332.html


Sadly, Thomas is an angry person, and perhaps has always been so.   
And he has some significant unresolved issues, as they say.  And I  
think on some issues he lacks "judicial temperament."  But, that same  
critique I could make about most of the justices, I think.

I find it very strange that law professors would be so willing to go  
with an all-or-nothing assessment of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas  
versions of what happened.  Surely we have all seen enough of life  
and been in enough situations to know that two people can see the  
same incident or event very differently.  Even sometimes our students  
misunderstand our words, body language, intentions in ways that  
mystify us -- or am I the only to whom this has happened?  How else  
to reconcile two student evals -- one says "he is too confusing"  
followed by the next student who says "he presented everything very  
clearly."  (for the record, I'm a bit concerned about both students  
since I what I try to do is present the confused law clearly  :)  )

Steve


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