An Open Letter to John Roberts
CLARENCE THOMAS ET AL
April 8, 2023
The Honorable John Roberts
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
RE: CLARENCE THOMAS ET AL
Chief Justice Roberts:
Word on the street is that you are bothered and bewildered by the ever-deepening disgust ‘We The People’ feel towards a Supreme Court so out of touch with the those it is tasked with protecting that it attempts to turn back time on behalf of the most extreme Conservative private interests.
On top of the generally horrifying decisions by a stunningly privileged white majority on the court, you and some your most self-congratulatory colleagues are behaving as if your positions on SCOTUS should allow you to exist ‘above’ and apart from the lived experience — from the outrage expressed in peaceful protests — of those who’ve made your cloistered lives possible. As if your ‘whiteness’ means, by definition, that you oughtn’t be held accountable — or even made uncomfortable — for the horror you render to and rain down on other people’s lives.
Clarence Thomas has been a gross — and frankly, utterly vulgar — addition to SCOTUS from the start. Ginni…
