Justice Thomas Criticizes Left-Leaning Law Schools and Cynicism
Justice Clarence Thomas says he likes to travel outside of Washington, D.C. so he can get away from the Inside-the-Beltway cynicism.
Speaking last Thursday to University of Nebraska-Lincoln law students, Thomas criticized elite law schools for leaning left and criticized Washington, D.C., for the cynical attitudes that prevail, Radio Iowa reports. He said traveling elsewhere, especially the Midwest, gives him hope.
“It really helps to go see that other people are doing things, that they actually believe in their country, that they actually want it to work, that they’re willing to sacrifice,” Thomas said. “That’s what I hear. I think we dishonor them when we go inside that Beltway and we become a tower of Babel and only talk to each other in a sort of cynical, smarmy way.”
Thomas also said the Supreme Court is being asked to play too large a role in decisions that are better left to the other branches of government, according to Radio Iowa and the Lincoln Journal Star. “I don’t know about all of these big moral questions any better than anybody else,” he said.
