Justice Sotomayor Was Asked for Her Views on the ‘Real’ Clarence Thomas

Justice Sotomayor on the ‘Real’ Clarence Thomas. Justice Clarence Thomas waited thirty years to put his impression on the U.S. Supreme Court in perpetuity. After Thomas’s fractious 1991 Senate confirmation hearing that featured an incomprehensible diatribe from none other than Joe Biden (Thomas would later confess he “had no idea what he was talking about”) to the last few weeks’ blockbuster Supreme Court rulings authored by the hand of Thomas himself, it was refreshing to get a more sober and balanced perspective on the justice who is now “at the peak of his powers.” So, while radical activists circulate the…