She clerked for Thomas on the Court so this isn’t business, it’s personal. Her grievance has to do with Toobin going on Anderson Cooper’s show earlier this week to remark, again and again and again, upon the bristling rage Thomas allegedly feels towards everyone and everything. File that away with the claim that he takes dictation from Scalia because he can’t think for himself and that he’s sexually aggressive per Anita Hill’s deus ex machina harassment allegations at his confirmation hearing as yet another in the long line of anti-black stereotypes to which he’s been subjected. Which isn’t to suggest Toobin’s totally off the mark, mind you; after you’d been called “Uncle Thomas” for the millionth time, you’d be a little irritable, too.
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