{"id":10979,"date":"2011-08-22T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:50:00","slug":"clarence-thomas-and-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10979\/clarence-thomas-and-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas and the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a must-read profile in the New Yorker<\/em><\/a> on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:<\/p>\n

The implications of Thomas\u2019s leadership for the Court, and for the country, are profound. Thomas is probably the most conservative Justice to serve on the Court since the nineteen-thirties. More than virtually any of his colleagues, he has a fully wrought judicial philosophy that, if realized, would transform much of American government and society. Thomas\u2019s views both reflect and inspire the Tea Party movement, which his wife has helped lead almost since its inception. The Tea Party is a diffuse operation, and it can be difficult to pin down its stand on any given issue. Still, the Tea Party is unusual among American political movements in its commitment to a specific view of the Constitution\u2014one that accords, with great precision, with Thomas\u2019s own approach. For decades, various branches of the conservative movement have called for a reduction in the size of the federal government, but for the Tea Party, and for Thomas, small government is a constitutional command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later on, the profiler notes that Thomas \u2013 along with other conservatives on the Supreme Court \u2013 is poised to overturn the clearest expression of government overreach in a generation: ObamaCare.\u00a0 If that happens, Thomas\u2019 judicial philosophy, and the Tea Party\u2019s importance, will be vindicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a must-read profile in the New Yorker on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: The implications of Thomas\u2019s leadership for the Court, and for the country, are profound. Thomas is probably the most conservative Justice to serve on the Court since the nineteen-thirties. More than virtually any of his colleagues, he has a fully wrought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1494,928,582,742,35,92,28],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-conservative","tag-federalism","tag-limited-government","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}