In a surprising essay--surprising both on account of the author and the venue--for the upcoming edition of The New Yorker, Jeffery Toobin shows Justice Thomas to be a principled leader of the current Supreme Court. Toobin describes Thomas's jurisprudence as "scholarly" and "influential" and notes that "Thomas’s intellect and his influence have also been recognized by those who generally disagree with his views."
Although Toobin's essay is far from error free--e.g., his oftentimes tone of condescension and his assertion that "the framers often disagreed profoundly with each other, making a single intent behind the Constitution even more difficult to discern,"--his attempt to understand Thomas as he understands himself is a striking contrast to most anything else written on Thomas by the media.
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