Thomas: SCOTUS Critics 'Lazy'

Politico reports:

They’re more than just wrong: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that critics of the court’s decisions suffer from “a disease of illiteracy or laziness” that could weaken the law.

Speaking in Augusta, Ga., near his hometown of Pin Point, the conservative justice was far from the silent presence he has become know for in oral arguments as he rebuked the “cynics” who are “drunk on their own opinions.”

“You don’t go to a Georgia fan to get commentary on the University of Florida, because it’s not objective commentary,” Thomas told the Augusta Bar Association, according to The Augusta Chronicle. “Unfortunately, much of the commentary about the court is from the standpoint of people who have vested interests in particular outcomes, particular policies or particular results. Do you think you are getting an honest assessment?”

Critics of the court’s decisions, he said, often appear not to have read the rulings they’re discussing — and though he generally does not read court commentary, he knows that most lawyers and members of the public do.

“You don’t just keep nagging and nagging and nagging. At some point it’s got to stop. Sometimes, too much is too much,” he said. “I think we are reaching the point where we are beginning to undermine the integrity of the law we’re going to need.”