Clarence Thomas and John Roberts Are at a Fork in the Road

[elleng]

*As Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, surety laws help confirm “what common sense suggests: When an individual poses a clear threat of physical violence to another, the threatening individual may be disarmed.”

The difference between Roberts and Thomas is clear. Roberts looks to past practice to establish a principle. Thomas looks to past practice as essentially establishing precedent.

Roberts gets it right. When we consider new policies in the present, the acts of the past are instructive but not binding. Modern American lawmakers are not limited by the colonial imagination.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/opinion/rahimi-clarence-thomas-john-roberts.html

[RandySF]

1. Thomas is not at a fork in the road.

That would imply he thinks anything through, which he does not.

[oldsoftie]

2. Thomas is a knife in our backs. nt

[Midnight Writer]

3. We should learn from the past, not let the past rule our future.