U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Mar. 10, 2016
Thomas stands firm for Scalia
It is not coincidental that the occasion for his breaking his silence was the absence of the legendary energetic questioner who shared his views on the Second Amendment.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
When Justice Clarence Thomas recently ended his record 10 years of silence during Supreme Court arguments, most of the comments were directed at the phenomenon itself, that a streak being broken. Thomas had not asked a single question from the bench during that period, while his eight comrades made it a practice to pepper advocates with more or less probing inquiries.
During that period, Thomas' silence was the subject of considerable comment, much of it derogatory, some implying tha...
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