Clarence Thomas Interview
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‘Virtually everything I do is in preparation of doing this job.’
Q: What’s changed in your judging over the 27 years?
A: That is really a good question, judge. It’s sort of like if you climb a mountain, when you’re at 1,000 feet you see something. You still look at the same scenery, but you have a different view from when you’re at 10,000 feet or 5,000 feet. You see more. I’ve been doing this so long that you see more. You understand more. The reason I was reading this book on the Plantagenets was because of English common law. . . . To understand stare decisis, you have to understand English common law. To understand English common law, you have to understand where England came from—the Norman conquest, the Vikings, the Romans. . .
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