re: #448 Skip Intro

Guess which other justice made the exact same mistake in their opinion. Go ahead, I know it’s a tough one, but give it a shot.

Give up? Clarence Thomas, that’s who. It’s almost as though Thomas just rubber stamps everything Scalia writes.

Actually I’m going to make a minor defense of Thomas here. (I hate my personal ethics sometimes.)

I am willing to wager that most concurring justices assume the facts declaimed by the authoring justice are valid, and so concentrate on the assumptions and conclusions. Further, I strongly suspect that none of the justices have their own clerks do homework on the other justices’ works.

Concurrence is “I’ve read this and rather than writing my own that says pretty much the same thing, I just say ‘ditto’.”

I’ll make a guess, though. I’m going to guess that after this most if not all the justices have their clerks double-check at least Scalia’s and possibly everyone’s details. Yay, more work for the peons.