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4 Libs And… Clarence Thomas Unite To Smack North Carolina’s Racial Gerrymandering
Topic Started: May 26 2017, 02:55 PM (298 Views)
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The other conservatives, the three that sided with North Carolina (Gorsuch did not take part in the decision), were comfortable taking North Carolina’s word that there was no racism here. In his dissent, Justice Alito wrote ” The issue is whether District 12 was drawn predominantly because of race. The record shows that it was not.”

In a “he or she said” v. “any racist white man said” situation, you can always trust Justice Alito to take the white man’s word for it.

And usually Thomas does too. The difference is that Alito and the other conservatives accept that racial gerrymanders are going to happen (Alito calls gerrymandering “unsavory” in general), but are happy to pretend that “racism” doesn’t exist unless a white man explicitly admits to it. Thomas doesn’t accept that racial gerrymanders are going to happen, and would be totally willing to let minorities be functionally disenfranchised in order to further his view of the law.

It’s the difference between going out on a rainy day, standing under an umbrella and saying “it’s not raining to me” (which is the Alito and Roberts way), and standing buck naked in the rain and saying “I’m not wet” (which is the Thomas way.) Alito’s being willfully ignorant of his surroundings. Thomas thinks his state of mind determines his reality.

From the progressive perspective, even a wet clock is right twice a day.

http://abovethelaw.com/2017/05/4-libs-and-clarence-thomas-unite-to-smack-north-carolinas-racial-gerrymandering/
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dr345
May 26 2017, 02:55 PM
The other conservatives, the three that sided with North Carolina (Gorsuch did not take part in the decision), were comfortable taking North Carolina’s word that there was no racism here. In his dissent, Justice Alito wrote ” The issue is whether District 12 was drawn predominantly because of race. The record shows that it was not.”

In a “he or she said” v. “any racist white man said” situation, you can always trust Justice Alito to take the white man’s word for it.

And usually Thomas does too. The difference is that Alito and the other conservatives accept that racial gerrymanders are going to happen (Alito calls gerrymandering “unsavory” in general), but are happy to pretend that “racism” doesn’t exist unless a white man explicitly admits to it. Thomas doesn’t accept that racial gerrymanders are going to happen, and would be totally willing to let minorities be functionally disenfranchised in order to further his view of the law.

It’s the difference between going out on a rainy day, standing under an umbrella and saying “it’s not raining to me” (which is the Alito and Roberts way), and standing buck naked in the rain and saying “I’m not wet” (which is the Thomas way.) Alito’s being willfully ignorant of his surroundings. Thomas thinks his state of mind determines his reality.

From the progressive perspective, even a wet clock is right twice a day.

http://abovethelaw.com/2017/05/4-libs-and-clarence-thomas-unite-to-smack-north-carolinas-racial-gerrymandering/
With Scalia gone, Thomas might be realizing that things were not as Antonin had said?


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