{"id":777579,"date":"2021-09-17T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=777579"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:13:31","slug":"clarence-thomas-the-supreme-court-could-be-the-most-dangerous-branch-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomas-the-supreme-court-could-be-the-most-dangerous-branch-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas: The Supreme Court Could Be The \u2018Most Dangerous\u2019 Branch Of Government"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fclarence-thomas-the-supreme-court-could-be-the-most-dangerous-branch-of-government%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=777579&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>Justice Clarence Thomas warned against politicizing the Supreme Court Thursday, saying that doing so could make the judicial system the \u201cmost dangerous\u201d branch of government.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas cautioned against allowing \u201cothers to manipulate our institutions when we don\u2019t get the outcome we like.\u201d He reminded the crowd that justices do rule not based on \u201cpersonal preferences,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/justice-clarence-thomas\/2021\/09\/16\/d2ddc1ba-1714-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas rose to the bench in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/10\/31\/clarence-thomas-celebrates-25-years-on-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1991<\/a>, and he is the current court\u2019s longest-serving member. He even passively criticized some of his colleagues without mentioning any names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we begin to venture into the legislative or executive branch lanes, those of us, particularly in the federal judiciary with lifetime appointments, are asking for trouble,\u201d he said,&nbsp;Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-dangerous-aeee0246-bd95-4349-af0f-9d3bdb351acd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe court was thought to be the least dangerous branch and we may have become the most dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about winning or losing at the court. It is about the entire country and the idea of this country,\u201d Thomas added. He also warned against \u201cdestroying our institutions because they don\u2019t give us what we want, when we want it.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/justice-stephen-breyer-expanding-court-further-erode-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Breyer Expanding The Court Will Only Erode Public Trust In It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7268019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7268019\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7268019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232480746-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7268019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court in April. Chief Justice John Roberts sits front-and-center, with Thomas seated to his right. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas is just the latest justice to speak about the court and the potential for its politicization.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Amy Coney Barrett <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-partisan-political-parties\/\">said Monday<\/a> that the court was \u201cnot comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,\u201d adding that \u201cjudicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.\u201d Justice Stephen Breyer gave similar remarks days earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/10\/stephen-breyer-court-packing-goes-around-comes-around\/\">warning<\/a> about the risks that come with court packing and a public loss of faith in the court itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat goes around comes around,\u201d Breyer said. \u201cAnd if the Democrats can do it, then the Republicans can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Clarence Thomas warned against politicizing the Supreme Court Thursday, saying that doing so could make the judicial system the \u201cmost dangerous\u201d branch of government.During a speech at the University &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777579","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\/777579","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777579\/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=777579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}