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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime Magazine's New Cover Shows The Ghost of Clarence Thomas Haunting Brett Kavanaugh
by Caleb Howe | Sep 20th, 2018, 10:29 am
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Times new cover has Brett Kavanaugh in the foreground, and a large, looming, ghostly figure of Clarence Thomas, circa 1991, haunting him in the background. Or maybe its not the ghost of 1991 Thomas. Maybe Kavanaugh is casting a Thomas shadow for some reason, instead of being in Thomas shadow.
Whatever one can conjecture it may evoke, its pretty on-the-nose to the headline, which reads Whats Changed. Not much to that imagery. The past image. The present image. The end.
Luckily, you can click through to the article by Molly Ball, intriguingly titled Brett Kavanaughs Supreme Court Confirmation Is Now the Ultimate Test of Political Power in 2018, hopeful of finding a little more depth than the cover image.
It was a hazy accusation: hesitantly lodged, short on detail and curiously timed. But Fords charge shattered Kavanaughs carefully crafted tableau, calling into doubt the image he projected. The row of young girls, legs bare in their private-school skirts, looked different now.
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Time Magazine's New Cover Shows The Ghost of Clarence Thomas Haunting Brett Kavanaugh (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2018
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MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)1. What's Changed? Absolutely NOTHING
that's WHAT!
procon
(15,805 posts)2. Paints a picture of the real moral values of the Gop that Republicans would
put up two men charged with abusing women to sit in judgement over 50% of the population. Women who will find no justice in the US courts as long as this mindset defines Republicans.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)3. Justice Thomas has done nothing to distinguish himself in 27 years
We're talking about what he did and said when he was nominated. That happened in 1991.
Once he was approved he's done nothing except vote like a good little Republican. Why is he even on the SCOTUS bench? When has his opinion ever mattered? If Brett Kavanaugh gets on the bench, he'll be taking up space just like Thomas.