Political Quotes

Clarence Thomas

Judge / Justice

22Quotes on record
2025–2026On the record

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July 1, 2026

I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time.

Clarence Thomas

Jun 30, 2026

Blacks were entitled to citizenship because they were Americans.

dailycaller.com
Jun 30, 2026

the Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights … the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.

dailycaller.com
Jun 23, 2026

Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude.

rollcall.com
Jun 2, 2026

This Court routinely declines to provide relief to law-abiding Americans when it would actually matter, even after lower courts conspicuously flout this Court's precedents in ruling against them.

foxnews.com
Jun 2, 2026

It is unfortunate that the Court chose to intervene at the request of a convicted murderer to correct the Eleventh Circuit's inconsequential foot fault.

foxnews.com
May 26, 2026

The State of Florida moved for leave to file a complaint against Washington and California for defying federal law by providing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens who cannot read English.

washingtonexaminer.com
May 26, 2026

This Court declines to even hear Florida’s claims, even though it has nowhere else to bring them.

washingtonexaminer.com
Jun 30, 2025

This provision sweeps too broadly, interferes with the party-candidate relationship, and has not been proved necessary to combat corruption.

politico.com
Jun 27, 2025

I am hopeful that this Court will soon realize that the conflict its §2 jurisprudence has sown with the Constitution is too severe to ignore.

newsweek.com
Jun 27, 2025

The Due Process Clause protects an individual's natural liberty from government interference.

newsweek.com
Jun 27, 2025

Congress requires this Court to exercise jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to congressional redistricting, and we accordingly have an obligation to resolve such challenges promptly.

newsweek.com