Louie Gohmert: “I notice the skill and adroitness of Mrs. Miller-Meeks making her way hurriedly around the rows, through the rows. She…”

“I notice the skill and adroitness of Mrs. Miller-Meeks making her way hurriedly around the rows, through the rows. She must have picked up something from such a great sled hockey player. Madam Speaker, I want to turn my attention to some recent criticisms of an amazing man. I agree with some who have clerked at the Supreme Court, that Justice Clarence Thomas may be easily the most intelligent Justice on the Court. That fact actually turned him from his days at Yale Law School--actually he started at Harvard for, I think, a day or so, but he felt like Harvard was too conservative, so he dropped out and applied to Yale and was pleased it seemed more liberal in its thinking. {time} 1315 But Yale was able to take a brilliant person like that, and according to his book, he began to notice how liberals who were White seemed to look down on him with an arrogant view of Clarence Thomas that, gee, if it weren't for us liberals, a Black man like Clarence Thomas would not have even gotten into this school, when actually he had the raw intelligence to do that regardless and had done well everywhere he had been, including Holy Cross when he originally went there thinking he might be a priest at some point. Those are my recollections from his autobiography, a splendid read, ``My Grandfather's Son.'' That kind of arrogance, looking down on him like he couldn't do this on his own if it weren't for us liberals, turned him off.…”