"2. Silence is the true Commentary on the Self.
3. Let everyone learn in Silence with all Subjection. ...
32. Silence evolves from the dissolution of the mind; it is quite different from ordinary silence of speech. It is Eloquence... Eternal Speech."
[Synoptic Advice of Babaji, Babaji, pp. 164-6] well, may be not in this case, but there's always a lesson: Bong Hitz 4 Jesus!

Justice "Uncle Ruckus" doesn't engage in oral argument because he's already made up his mind. All he has to do is follow his checklist:

1. Is the plaintiff in the highest 5% of annual income?

2. See number 1

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt - Mark Twain, if I remember right.

Just what the DR ordered.

MoJo should make a status website for him, a la www.abevigoda.com.

The political and financial stacking of the US Courts is among the most serious threat to our civil rights and day-to-day ability to live normal lives.

This is racism to attack a brother during Black History month.

Thomas falls into the political spectrum along the lines from Conservative to Reactionary much as most of those appointed by the misnamed Neo-Cons. As such, he invites those to come before him which can allow him to "turn the clock back" to times of Robber Barons and two class system, wealthy and poor, and women were chattel. Light would have to be reflected by a large number of mirrors to reach the "secretive Star Chamber" he envisions himself a part of.

Clarence, I think, is caught in a comtemplative paradox.

The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution....... .......... ....

....... Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.... .... . . . . . .

.... . . . There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make
themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. ...... . .

. . . . . My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the world aright.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus