Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has told attendees at a judicial conference that he and his wife have faced “nastiness and lies” over the last several years.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”

Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He made the comments pushing back on his critics in response to a question about working in a world that seems meanspirited.

“I think there’s challenges to that. We’re in a world and we — certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been — just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.

“But you have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things. But one you have to understand and accept the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that,” Thomas said.

  • Spitzspot@lemmings.world
    133·
    6 months ago

    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the ‘90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals’ lives ‘miserable’

  • rusticus@lemm.ee
    99·
    6 months ago

    Citizens v United bitch. You fucked America and deserve to rot in hell.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    961·
    6 months ago

    Yeah it got nasty WHEN CLARENCE THOMAS PUT HIS OWN PUBIC HAIR ON A COKE CAN. True story. Look it up. I still believe Anita Hill

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      57·
      6 months ago

      What the media did to Anita Hill was absolutely horrendous and every outlet and personality who made a punch line out of her back then should apologize for their absolute disrespect of a woman who did something that was beyond brave.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      6 months ago

      It’s not just a story, it’s a gag he has done multiple times. There’s at least two coworkers in another era of his life who claimed he pulled the same prank (or whatever you call that)

  • notannpc@lemmy.world
    691·
    6 months ago

    Aw, poor sugar baby Clarence doesn’t like when people call out his blatant abuse of power for personal gain? I guess you should just do the country a favor and fucking retire.

    • CompostMaterial@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      Honestly, I don’t think anything short of an Eagle Eye situation would make much of a difference.

      For those that haven’t seen the movie, a DOD super advanced AI reinterprets it’s core directive to uphold the constitution to mean that the entire Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branches of the United States Government must be “removed from office” due to corruption with only the exception of the designated survivor.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 months ago

      He and every other corrupt and loathsome creature festering in the GOP’s worst cesspool love to claim they are being treated unfairly when enough people call them out.

      They’re all victims, despite being predatory pieces of shit that ruin lives with their bought-and-sold policy decisions.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        god i love the way you wrote that. speaking my fucking language right there.

        you’re absolutely right, and this is yet another instance of those scumbags projecting.

        They pearl-clutch and wring their hands while whinging about being victims because they want US to be their victims.

        Every time a conservative bootlicker chudsimp accuses anyone of anything, it’s not-so-secretly a confession.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    491·
    6 months ago

    Maybe it’s because he’s such an awful awful person that everyone is just so mean to him and his awful awful wife.

    • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org
      18·
      6 months ago

      It is genuinely amazing the lengths this man will go to deny his level of impropriety as if it’s some grand conspiracy and not heavily documented; I am happy others are open to making his existence as miserable as he makes ours.

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        He’s whining about this from the seat of his free RV in his way to another luxury fishing trip.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      6 months ago

      It’s worth informing those who don’t know that his wife is a 2020 election denyer. She referred to it as a “heist”. She’s a piece of work, just like him.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    6 months ago

    Oh no! People are being mean to the human equivalent of an unwiped asshole covered in weeping pus sores?

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
        61·
        6 months ago

        I’ve spent the last few hours reading this. Fucking hell. I remember the news reports that came out about Elan, but this first hand account is really something else.

        • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 months ago

          I got through a couple dozen chapters, it’s a difficult thing to even imagine being real, and I’ve read several accounts about the place - but no first person account before this

  • Funderpants
    43·
    6 months ago

    Please politely accept my stripping your rights away. - Thomas

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 months ago

      It’s always extra nasty when men pass legislation to have the government control women’s bodies. I say this as a man myself - it’s fucked up.