Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear, in Barack Obama's criticism of the Supreme Court Decision regarding campaign finance America's first Black President elevated to a place of honor "one of the most vile enemies of African Americans to ever serve in the U.S. Senate
who owed his election to public office to his participation in an armed assault upon a body of black soldiers during Reconstruction and the lynching of several of these soldiers, and a dangerous demagogue who was censured for his physical assault of another Senator on the floor of the US Senate and barred from the White House over the incident. [Gateway Pundit]
In remarks to students at a law school in Florida, Justice Thomas talked about Obama 's open criticism of the "Citizens United" case.
He told them:
[T]he history of Congressional regulation of corporate involvement in politics had a dark side, pointing to the Tillman Act, which banned corporate contributions to federal candidates in 1907.
“Go back and read why Tillman introduced that legislation,” Justice Thomas said, referring to Senator Benjamin Tillman. “Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”
It is thus a mistake, the justice said, to applaud the regulation of corporate speech as “some sort of beatific action.”[New York Times]
Tsk, Tsk. And Obama is supposed to have been a "Senior Lecturer" on the Constitution.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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