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"Delivering the keynote speech at an annual symposium for conservative law students, Thomas spoke in vague, but ominous, terms about the direction of the country and urged his listeners to “redouble your efforts to learn about our country so that you’re in a position to defend it.”
He and Scalia undermined the neutrality of the high court when they attended an invitation only, closed to all press, strategy planning session organized by the Koch brothers. Supreme Court justices have to be beyond reproach--the entire idea of the court is that it be above the political process. SC justices have spoke about issues before when it was widely covered by the press, or to groups of law students or trade associations in more private settings, but never in a forum like this that's entirely partisan and private, and where it draws suspicion that they could very well have been part of the planning process.
He's not the only justice who's found oral arguments a waste of time. There's nothing said in oral arguments they haven't already read in the briefs.
Judges that think oral arguments are a waste of time do not belong on the court, any court.
SOME oral arguments may be a waste of time, but more often than not it is an opportunity for the judges to ASK QUESTIONS. Briefs are by their nature partisan and don't always cover every angle.
Thomas thinks they are a waste of time because he's too dumb to ask decent questions.
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