BYÂ GARRETT EPPS
Justice Clarence Thomasâs voice sounded in the Supreme Court chamber on Thursday, as he read aloud short summaries of two majority opinions he authored. But he spoke loudest in a third case, without saying a word. Â
In McFadden v. United States, Thomas wrote for a nearly unanimous Court rejecting the governmentâs argument that it could prosecute sellers of âanalogue drugsââthat is, new âdesigner drugsâ that mimic the effects of drugs banned by the Controlled Substances Actâwithout proving that the seller knew the new drug was functionally the same as a âcontrolled substance.â
He drew a laugh when he noted that the drugs McFadden had sold were labeled âbath salts.â That part of the opinion, he ad-libbed, was âa sentence which I do not fully understand.â
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