Liberals who love to hate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have invented another reason — his opposition to an assault weapons ban in Highland Park, Illinois, in a 2015 court case that upheld the ban.
Some progressives now are blaming Justice Thomas for Monday’s shooting in Highland Park that left at least seven dead and dozens wounded, despite his written dissent seven years ago having no legal effect on the town’s gun-control law.
“Welcome to Clarence Thomas’s vision of America,” tweeted Democrat John Burns, a former Wake County commissioner in North Carolina.
Other social media posts, mostly anonymous, accused Justice Thomas of having “blood on his hands” or called for his impeachment.