{"id":2016211,"date":"2023-08-29T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-former-clerks-defend-justice-thomas-in-letter-his-integrity-is-unimpeachable\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T23:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:17:02","slug":"more-than-100-former-clerks-defend-justice-thomas-in-letter-his-integrity-is-unimpeachable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-former-clerks-defend-justice-thomas-in-letter-his-integrity-is-unimpeachable\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 ex-clerks support Justice Thomas: &#8216;His integrity is unquestionable&#8217;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmore-than-100-former-clerks-defend-justice-thomas-in-letter-his-integrity-is-unimpeachable%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=2016211&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--><h2>Former Clerks Defend Justice Clarence Thomas Amid Attacks<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than 100 of Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 former clerks banded together to defend their\u200b old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-former-clerks-defend-justice-thomas-in-letter-his-integrity-is-unimpeachable\/\" title=\"Over 100 ex-clerks support Justice Thomas: 'His integrity is unquestionable'\">boss amid continued attacks leveled<\/a> against him from the political Left, challenging his integrity and independence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/over-100-former-clerks-justice-thomas-sign-open-letter-defending-his-integrity-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday on an open letter, signed by 112 of Thomas\u2019\u200c former clerks, that accused his attackers of \u2063being party to \u201ca larger attack on the Court\u200c and its legitimacy\u201d and described the Justice as \u201ca man \u200cof greatest \u200cintellect, of greatest\u200d faith, and of greatest patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs \u200bhis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/influential-judge-deals-blow-to-bidens-employer-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Influential Judge Deals Blow to Biden\u2019s Employer Vaccine Mandate\">law clerks<\/a>, we offer this response. Different paths led us to our year with Justice Thomas, and we have followed different paths since. But\u2063 along the way, we all saw with our own eyes the \u200dsame thing: His integrity is unimpeachable,\u201d the\u200b letter began. \u201cAnd his independence is unshakable, deeply rooted seven decades ago as that young child who walked through the door of his grandparents\u2019 house for a life\u200b forever changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064letter went on to describe\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/offensive-disgusting-and-false-desantis-staffer-unloads-on-hillary-clinton-over-clarence-thomas-screed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas\u2019<\/a> upbringing and education, how he was changed \u2064by life in the segregated South, and how he \u200bhad been \u2064destined for the priesthood before the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy \u200dand \u200cMartin Luther King Jr. led him to the \u2063law instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a man of unwavering \u200cprinciple. He welcomes the lone \u2064dissent. \u2062He\u200d is also\u200c a man of \u2064great humor and\u2063 warmth and \u2062generosity. \u2063Walk the halls, and you\u2019ll hear\u200c his \u200blaugh. Call, and he answers,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-lawmakers-urge-doj-to-open-criminal-investigation-into-cuomo-for-alleged-obstruction-of-justice\/\" title=\"U.S. Lawmakers Urge DOJ To Open Criminal Investigation Into Cuomo For Alleged Obstruction Of Justice\">letter continued<\/a>. \u201cHis grandfather\u2019s sayings\u200d become our sayings. His chambers become our chambers \u2013 a place fueled by unstoppable curiosity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-former-clerks-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-speak-out\/\" title=\"100 Ex-Clerks of Justice Clarence Thomas Speak Up\">unreturned library books<\/a>, \u2063all to get every case just right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The tone of the letter then turned, addressing recent attacks against Thomas regarding some of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal friends<\/a> and gifts he may have received from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLately,\u2062 the stories have questioned his integrity and his ethics for the friends he keeps. They bury the lede. These friends are not parties before him as\u200b a Justice of the Court. \u2064And these stories are malicious, perpetuating the ugly assumption that the Justice cannot think\u2062 for himself,\u201d it continued. \u201cThey are part of a larger attack on the Court and its legitimacy as an institution. The \u200dpicture \u200cthey paint of \u2064the Court and the man for whom we worked bears no resemblance to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 former clerks of Justice Clarence Thomas united to support him against ongoing attacks from the political Left. In an open letter signed by 112 of his former clerks, they defended his integrity and independence, accusing his critics of being biased. Fox News Digital reported on this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2016212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016211","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}