Justice Thomas

“What I am is what he made me.” Thomas’ moral message is that of his grandfather. https://t.co/BACgJTR3p8

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) August 17, 2020

Can Clarence Thomas curb the National Government?

New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom by Walter Russell Mead (via VFR)

Another gem from Robert Peters on Ron Paul and the Constitution:

Mr. Paul’s big mistake and mine as well in my more misplaced hopeful moments is that one can “return to the Constitution.” That cannot be; that experiment has failed; the embryo of the failure was tucked into the Constitution itself in the “general welfare clause” and the “commerce clause.” The foul egg was nurtured by Hamilton, Marshal, Webster, Story and Clay. It hatched into the cockatrice of Lincoln and the Republican Party. What the Hobbesian state does not, disregarding all subsidiarity, subsume itself, it allows its corporate, for-profit and not-for-profit, allies to consume. The Fed is an important link between the state and its allies.