'Contrary to what Tomasky demands in his unhinged assault, we should be grateful for Thomas’s ascent to the Supreme Court. His efforts there have reaped much good fruit. We should hope he continues in that good work for years to come.' -Adam Carrington
Tomasky has a plan for the attacks, about which he is quite open. He understands that recent, overwrought accusations against Thomas’s private life will go nowhere. So, he now calls on others to try and ruin the justice’s reputation as a jurist — though the reader will search high and low in the column for any substantive engagement with Thomas’s jurisprudence.
The law comprises words. Thus, it should be obvious that a judge begins with the law’s text, parsing it for meaning applicable to the litigation at hand. When the words themselves don’t answer every question, a judge should turn to the context in which the words were composed, seeking thereby to understand them as the original lawmakers would have understood them.
Second, Thomas has dedicated much of his work to laying down the true meaning of the establishment clause. It was not to create a complete separation of religion from public life, as many have argued. The framers intended it to keep the national government from creating a national church, though that is starkly different from denying any place for religious language or arguments in the public square. The clause was also intended to protect state expressions of religion from national meddling.
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