Judge Amul Thapar On Clarence Thomas 'The People's Justice'

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amul Thapar joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the decades-long smear campaign against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and examine the rulings that best exemplify what Thomas stands for.

You can find Thapar's book "The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him" here.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.9	I'm Emily Dishinsky, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.5	As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at fdrlst.com
0:59.9	And I thought, boy, if I could do that, that would be incredible.
1:03.7	Could you imagine if you could write a book and get a publisher to publish it that fast?
1:08.8	That is what I aspire to do.
1:10.4	See a controversy and get a book out in the same minute that basically weak that a controversy
1:16.8	exists.
1:17.8	You know, it's almost as though you could have predicted the media would be attacking Clarence
1:23.6	Thomas.
1:24.6	You know, it's, I know it's surprising to everybody that.
1:27.1	Yeah, that's true.
1:28.1	I guess.
1:29.1	You're point is you could write a book any time since he's been on the bench and it would
1:35.2	be timely because of that.
1:37.2	Although it is especially timely right now because there has been, I think, a thinly
1:41.5	veiled, coordinated campaign to discredit Justice Thomas, also Justice Alito, just this
1:47.1	week was the subject of one of those fabulous pro-publica deep dives into finances that
1:53.2	he preemptively struck down with an op-ed in the journal.
1:57.0	I mentioned that because actually just yesterday a despicable piece ran in New York magazine.
2:03.5	It was one of the most reckless and pretentious and awful pieces of journalism.
2:08.3	I had read in a really long time, but there's a line in it that I think is actually a really
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