"Whoop-Dee-Damn-Doo"
(CBS)
Clarence Thomas has been biting his tongue for 16 years. And now, as the Supreme Court opens with a docket of politically-charged cases – from Guantanamo rights to lethal injection – he has decided to end his Salinger-esque silent streak.
His new book “My Grandfather’s Son” comes out tomorrow – though in true 2007 form, the Washington Post found a sloppy bookseller who had it in the window a few days early. (You’d think a Supreme Court justice could get a little more love than Harry Potter, wouldn’t you?) In advance of the book, Thomas also sat down for an interesting interview with Steve Kroft on last night’s “60 Minutes.”
But on the off-chance you were looking for clarity or understanding or closure, forget it. The reviews are all over the place – unsurprising for such a polarizing figure.
Let’s kick off the reviews with the Los Angeles Times:
In his 15 years on the high court, the 59-year-old justice has long since established his once-doubted legal and intellectual bona fides. Yet with an eye on posterity, he seems to crave validation as having deserved his appointment and, more broadly, as a noble man fighting to do the right thing in an often bigoted, deceitful world. As Thomas puts it in his preface, he is rescuing his own history from the "careless hands" and "malicious hearts" of unnamed others.
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 