Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has surprised even hardline conservatives in the recent Supreme Court term by demonstrating that he has moved to the right of his ideological twin, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
On the decision upholding the Voting Rights Act, Thomas was the only one who wanted to overturn the law. Now he is also the only one who felt that it was appropriate for a middle school to strip search a female student searching for drugs, specifically ibuprofen!
Thomas reasoned that a public school had the right to promote order, safety and discipline without any recourse to the Constitution for students. This is astounding, and makes one glad he is not a principal of a school.Â
Imagine–Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, and Anthony Kennedy all joined the liberals on the Court—John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, and David Souter–in affirming that there are limits on what schools can do in the name of order, safety and discipline! Clarence Thomas isolated himself, unaffected by the views of the eight others on the Court, and it makes one wonder how does this man tick?  What is the true story about this man and his psychology–a man who has said he wants to stay on the Court for 43 years, until he is 86, in order to confound the "damned liberals"! But now he is defying those who agree with him over the years on most issues, but have demonstrated some room for growth! What a sad story for America!
What a sad, pitiful man Clarence Thomas is becoming, and reams will be written in history about this man and his narrowminded view of the Constitution and of life in general!