Justice Clarence Thomas Slams Joe Biden on Abortion: He Had “No Idea†What He Was Talking About
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas criticizes former Vice President Joe Biden’s stewardship of his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings in a forthcoming documentary called “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.â€
At one juncture of the film, from Manifold Productions, Thomas is asked about a colloquy with Biden over natural law philosophy and the Constitution. Though he doesn’t cite Biden by name, Thomas laments that lawmakers do not seem to have full command of the subject matter during judicial confirmation hearings.
“One of the things you do in hearings is you have to sit there and look attentively at people you know have no idea what they’re talking about,†Thomas says of the confirmation hearings.
“I have to be perfectly honest with you—you sit there, and you have no idea what they are talking about,†Thomas says elsewhere.
In the film, Thomas says Biden’s questions about natural law jurisprudence were little more than a ruse to draw him into a debate about abortion. The justice was famously circumspect about the subject during his confirmation hearings, at what one point claiming he had never discussed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision as a law student.
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