Justice Clarence Thomas Slams Cancel Culture, Concerned About Politicizing The Court
Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t think highly of cancel culture. At an upscale hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah for an audience of 500 people for a fundraising event hosted by former Republican U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch’s foundation, Thomas says that he has concerns over efforts to politicize and pack the court with additional justices.
In his speech, the senior justice says worries about how the long-term consequences of trends like “cancel culture” will affect the future of the court. He also criticized the media for creating false narratives on public figures like himself the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the court. You can cavalierly talk about doing this or doing that. At some point the institution is going to be be compromised. By doing this, you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if they’re going to have civil society,” Thomas says, according to the Associated Press.
“I’m afraid, particularly in this world of cancel culture attack, I don’t know where you’re going to learn to engage as we did when I grew up,” he said. “If you don’t learn at that level in high school, in grammar school, in your neighborhood, or in civic organizations, then how do you have it when you’re making decisions in government, in the legislature, or in the courts?”
Since Donald Trump’s presidency, the court has incresingly become more conversative with the addition of three court justices - Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch. In an attempt by progressive to balance the court by campaigning to expand the number of justices.
Last year, Presiden Joe Biden filed a bipartisan commission to conduct study on term limits and more justices to fulfill his campaign promise to realign the Supreme Court.
