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Quote of the Day — Clarence Thomas

July 13, 2020

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan. As an adult, I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along, where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. — Clarence Thomas

1948–present

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Clarence Thomas

1948–present

Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving and most influential originalist justice on the U.S. Supreme Court whose jurisprudence grounds constitutional interpretation in the document’s original public meaning, restoring limits on federal power. Born in 1948 in rural Georgia to a sharecropping family and raised by his grandfather, Thomas’s early years of poverty and segregation shaped his understanding of individual resilience and skepticism toward government solutions. After graduating from Yale Law School and practicing law, Thomas was appointed to the District of Columbia Circuit Court and then to the Supreme Court in 1991, where he has served for over three decades. Justice…

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From the Show

Justice Thomas’s piercing observation about sanctimonious persecution anchored the July 13, 2020 broadcast as Kim Monson and Karen Kataline examined how government officials and health bureaucrats weaponize moral authority to control citizens through mask mandates and business restrictions.

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Sanctimony

An attitude of moral superiority combined with hypocritical piety; the quality of being self-righteous while engaging in behaviors that contradict…

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Today’s Episode

Lawless Laws and the Fight Against Mask Mandates

Karen Kataline examines mask mandates as lawless laws and explains why civil disobedience may be necessary to protect individual freedom. July 13, 2020.

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