Clarence Thomas Takes On a Symbol of White Supremacy

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BY GARRETT EPPS

Justice Clarence Thomas’s 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.  

In McFadden v. United States, Thomas wrote for a nearly unanimous Court rejecting the government’s argument that it could prosecute sellers of “analogue drugs”—that is, new “designer drugs” that mimic the effects of drugs banned by the Controlled Substances Act—without proving that the seller knew the new drug was functionally the same as a “controlled substance.”hire vets

He drew a laugh when he noted that the drugs McFadden had sold were labeled “bath salts.”  That part of the opinion, he ad-libbed, was “a sentence which I do not fully understand.”

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