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Print The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was that Clarence Thomas was talking. That’s right. The Supreme Court justice who once went 10 full years without asking a single question at oral arguments — the justice who sits so quietly staring blankly at the ceiling that he made national headlines in 2013 when he cracked a nearly inaudible, nine-word joke — suddenly can’t...

Column: What does it mean that famously silent Justice Clarence Thomas is suddenly garrulous? Nicholas Goldberg © Provided by The LA Times Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2020. (John Amis / Associated Press) The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was that Clarence Thomas was talking. That’s right. The Supreme Court justice who once went 10 full years...

Months talk about the importance of not being civil to another political party. i've seen politicians encourage folks to get in the face of senators. try to disrupt their meals, harass them every way you can. my point is, there's plenty of blame to go around, i'm not saying the president has not used political rhetoric, and i don't think he'll stop. he's an unconventional president. >> political rhetoric is not the standard. you're very folksy, you have a great turn of phrase. you're a plain speaker. the president does something else, senator, and you know it. i'm not telling you anything you ...

Saying the president has not used political rhetoric, and i don't think he'll stop. he's an unconventional president. >> political rhetoric is not the standard. you're very folksy, you have a great turn of phrase. you're a plain speaker. the president does something else, senator, and you know it. i'm not telling you anything you don't know. whether it's mcconnell -- i know you're not in the leadership yet. mcconnell, ryan, quiet. ryan is leaving. he was at a rally today in wisconsin. nothing about the president. he said nothing about the president today. >> what i would say, to both sides, br...

Pre-politics career as well. it seemed to me listening to talking to people around the white house and some of his support e supporters they were getting applause from the people they wanted applause from. >> i don't know, some of the republicans on the hill i talked to immediately -- >> the white house, itself, this is the president being president, trump being trump, he's a plain speaker. >> that's how they are spinning it. is that he is just sticking up for the same kind of system that many other countries like canada have, which is a merit-based system. but here's where you run into troubl...