"Prepare the world's tiniest violin, my friends. At a recent Catholic University Law School event, while sharing his thoughts on life, the universe, and everything with his former clerk Jenn Mascott (currently nominated to the Third Circuit despite a complete lack of connections to the state of Delaware), Justice Clarence Thomas explained that he put the brakes on his George Washington Law teaching gig after Dobbs because of "unpleasantness.""
"He didn't want to keep teaching a class... where he had all the power, controlled the syllabus, the grading, and the air conditioning. A class populated by students who, almost certainly, skewed mostly his way (who else is taking a Thomas class?). Come on, man! I know you prefer hanging out with fawning admirers willing to pay for your luxury vacations, but if you're going to do this job, you've got to be able to handle a couple side-eyes in a seminar room."
"You know what's unpleasant? People having forced births because a witchhunter from the 1600s said so. It's the same thing with Amy Coney Barrett's recent lament that her family forced her to make some coherent legal justification for her superlegislature cosplay to overturn longstanding Constitutional rights. Sorry gang, you don't get to run away because someone points out that your "deeply rooted in history and tradition" arguments are about as historical as the History Channel."
Justice Clarence Thomas said he stopped teaching at George Washington Law after Dobbs because of "unpleasantness" during a Catholic University Law School event with former clerk Jenn Mascott. The decision drew criticism as avoidance of classroom scrutiny despite control over syllabus, grading, and classroom environment, and despite a student body likely sympathetic to his views. Critics characterize the response as cowardice compared with the real harms of Dobbs, including forced births tied to historical legal doctrines. Amy Coney Barrett's struggle to articulate historical justifications for overturning longstanding rights is presented as similarly unconvincing. Comparisons to the History Channel and Ancient Aliens underscore claims of weak sourcing for conservative constitutional arguments.
Read at Above the Law
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