Clarence Thomas: The One-Man Palladium of Our Liberty
Our senior justice rarely glints more brightly than he does when he’s in a minority of one.

The magnificent character of Justice Clarence Thomas often glints its brightest when he’s in a minority of one, as in his dissent today in the Second Amendment case of United States v. Rahimi. Eight of Justice Thomas’s colleagues agree to deny the right to bear arms to Americans who are subject to restraining orders for domestic violence. Yet on what grounds, the justice asks, can that right — the palladium* of our liberty — be traversed?
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