Clarence Thomas Has Lost the Plot
The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it his hopelessly uncoupled from law, history, and the Constitution.
Justice Clarence Thomas’s preferred theory of constitutional interpretation is often said to be originalist, but it may be more accurately described as personalist. To Thomas, almost every American judge who served over the past two centuries wasted their lives and careers. Rather than try to determine the Constitution’s mea…
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