A Talented One
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This was such a clear-cut case that even the other conservatives on the court took the other side. Now even people who have some sympathy for Thomas are disappointed:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...omas-dissent-black-jurors-20160524-story.htmlWhere Thomas really made me sad was in his attitude toward the underlying issue of whether the conviction was tainted. He went through the black potential jurors excluded and systematically accepted the prosecutors' excuses for challenging them. He urged deference to the trial judge's judgment (!), and he discounted the documentary evidence, saying it wasn't clear who had highlighted or marked the black potential jurors' names on the list that was in the prosecutors' files.
To all this I can only say: Really?