From The New Yorker -
CLARENCE THOMAS’S TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITHOUT FOOTPRINTS
By Jeffrey Toobin
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Clarence Thomas’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Conservatives like Thomas have dominated the Court throughout his tenure, and he has been in the majority in all of their victories. That raises a question: What’s the most important opinion Thomas has written for the majority during his tenure on the Court?
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The truth is that Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write an opinion in a big case that could command a majority of even his conservative colleagues.
Why was this? It is because Thomas is not a conservative but, rather, a radical—one whose entire career on the Court has been devoted to undermining the rules of precedent in favor of his own idiosyncratic interpretation of the Constitution.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-twenty-five-years-without-footprints
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