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Originally Posted by Rajoo
I believe that the politicization of the judiciary started with the Obama presidency when states like Texas made it a game of suing the black guy. And then McConnell came along and the fix was on. Trump in four years appointed 200 judges to the Federal court and three Supreme Court justices and now we are paying the price with a politically active judiciary.
How does Thomas get to sit on the bench while his wife is carrying the MAGA torch like an Olympian?
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It started further back than that. Bork and Thomas nominations were political shit shows.
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallp...-maybe-forever
"The nomination changed everything, maybe forever," says Tom Goldstein, publisher of the popular SCOTUSblog, which extensively covers the Supreme Court. "Republicans nominated this brilliant guy to move the law in this dramatically more conservative direction. Liberal groups turned around and blocked him precisely because of those views. Their fight legitimized scorched-earth ideological wars over nominations at the Supreme Court, and to this day both sides remain completely convinced they were right. The upshot is that we have this ridiculous system now where nominees shut up and don't say anything that might signal what they really think."
And Thomas gets to remain on the bench because this is a free country, and his wife has as much right as anyone else to petition the government.