Judge Thomas said the left had adopted a tactic that conservatives would not have used.
“You would never visit the houses of Supreme Court judges when things are not going our way,” he said. “We were not angry. It is always our duty to act appropriately, not to pay grain for a copy. “
He added that the Conservatives “have never destroyed a candidate from the Supreme Court”. He acknowledged that Merrick B. Garland, the third candidate for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court, “did not receive a hearing, but was not expelled.”
“You will not see the complete destruction of any candidate,” he said. “You also won’t see people going to other people’s houses, attacking them at a restaurant dinner, throwing things at them.
He said Judge Brett M. Cavanaugh had been subjected to particular abuse, but only briefly referred to his own brutal confirmation hearings, during which he angrily denied allegations of sexual harassment.
Speaking on a contentious point, Judge Thomas said Republicans in the Senate who blocked Mr Garland’s nomination were following a rule proposed by President Biden, then a senator, “which is that you do not receive a hearing in the last year of administration. “.
Judge Thomas, the longest-serving member of this court, is a fierce opponent of Rowe.
On Friday, he said his opposition to his 1991 nomination was “from those people who tried to keep me out of court for abortion”.
At confirmation hearings, however, he said, much to the surprise of many, that he never discussed Roe, even though he was released while he was a student at Yale Law School.
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