“Thomas said the Supreme Court took a boundless view of equitable remedies when it told schools in 1955 how they needed to comply with the initial 1954 decision.”
“That may have justified temporary measures to overcome the schools’ widespread resistance, Thomas wrote. But it’s not backed up by the Constitution or by the nation’s “history and tradition.”
“Thomas made that case in arguing that courts have no role in deciding if congressional maps have been unfairly drawn to discriminate against Black people.”
“Thomas argued courts don’t have the constitutional authority to get involved. He blamed the second Brown v. Board of Education decision for starting such “extravagant uses of judicial power.”
Clarence Thomas criticizes Brown v. Board of Education. It comes at an awkward moment
Justice Clarence Thomas' criticism of a piece of the landmark desegregation decisions came the week after the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
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Kinda comical given the Trump Court couldn’t decide on Presidential immunity, which has zero history or tradition, disregarding the events of 1/6, because as Gorsuch put it, they had to write a ruling “for the ages.”
The whole Originalism/Textism rationale is bullshit, and leads to sophomoric opinions that are nothing but “extravagant uses of judicial power
