{"id":1529192,"date":"2022-06-27T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529192"},"modified":"2022-06-27T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T13:49:43","slug":"theyre-going-to-lose-their-liberties-clarence-thomas-makes-dire-warning-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-going-to-lose-their-liberties-clarence-thomas-makes-dire-warning-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re Going To Lose Their Liberties\u2019: Clarence Thomas Makes Dire Warning In New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheyre-going-to-lose-their-liberties-clarence-thomas-makes-dire-warning-in-new-book%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529192&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warned Americans that \u201cthey\u2019re going to lose their liberties\u201d in a new book, according to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was interviewed by co-editor Michael Pack for more than 30 hours between Nov. 2017 and March 2018 for the book\u00a0\u201cCreated Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/16\/sonia-sotomayor-clarence-thomas-cares-deeply-about-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/clarence-thomas-iphones-constitution-liberties-due-process-abortion-2022-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> said Americans are not interested in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we as citizens have lost interest and that\u2019s been my disappointment. That certainly was something that bothered Justice Scalia, that people tend to be more interested in their iPhones than their Constitution,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/nancy-pelosi-clarence-thomas-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> said, according to Business Insider. \u201cThey\u2019re interested in what they want rather than what is right as a country.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/21\/veered-off-into-fantasy-land-thomas-alito-author-blistering-dissents-supreme-court-decision-gun-crime-sentencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Veered Off Into Fantasy Land\u2019: Thomas, Alito Author Blistering Dissents In SCOTUS Decision On Gun Crime Sentencing)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-ruth-bader-ginsburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> said while Americans\u2019 disinterest in the Constitution isn\u2019t an issue for the Supreme Court, it is an issue for Americans themselves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7459873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7459873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff\/Pool via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a burden on them, the citizens,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/wapo-stealth-edits-article-comparing-justice-clarence-thomas-white-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> reportedly said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to lose their liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas added while the court does its best to protect liberties, it is just \u201cone part of the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou protect your liberty. It\u2019s your country. We are on part of the effort, and it is the obligation of the citizens to at least know what their liberties are and to be informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are allowing ourselves to be ruled when we turn all that over to someone else and we\u2019re saying, \u2018Rule me.\u2019 Does it mean we get to make all the decisions?\u201d Thomas reportedly said. \u201cNo. We have a system for doing that, but a part of that is our role in it, and our informed role in it, not what is said on TV, not what is said by some half-informed person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warned Americans that \u201cthey\u2019re going to lose their liberties\u201d in a new book, according to Business Insider.Thomas was interviewed by co-editor Michael Pack for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}