July 24, 2023 2:28pm EDT
Left, media's racial attacks on Clarence Thomas spark bipartisan rebuke
Amendment condemns left-wing attacks likening Justice Thomas to 'Uncle Tom,' house slave in 'Django Unchained'
By Brianna Herlihy | Fox News
Senate Judiciary Democrats have joined Republicans in unanimously approving a measure that formally condemns the sort of racist attacks against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas used recently by progressive pundits and elected Democrat officials.
Last week during a committee meeting to debate a Supreme Court ethics bill, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., requested that an amendment be adopted that would condemn inflammatory remarks made by Democrat lawmakers and media personalities who have targeted the Black conservative jurist.
That amendment, eventually voted through by every Republican and Democrat on the committee, states that Congress "condemns all racial attacks and comments leveled against any current or former Supreme Court Justice, including Justice Thomas, including those likening him to an 'Uncle Tom' figure or any other repugnant stereotype …"
The amendment details those comments recently made by Minnesota Democrat Attorney General Keith Ellison, who last week went on a racially charged rant in which he compared Thomas to a house slave character in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film "Django Unchained."
Also called out in the amendment is Georgia state Sen. Emanuel Jones, who used "racially charged language" to characterize Thomas, including calling him an ‘‘Uncle Tom’’ figure, in February.
MSNBC host Joy Reid was also singled out for "cast[ing] aspersions on Justice Thomas in a racially offensive manner for several years, in light of her disagreement with his jurisprudence."
"Racially charged insults and defamatory comments have surged in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions, in an attempt to humiliate, punish, and demean Justice Thomas," the amendment states.
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