After the Supreme Court’s term wrapped on Tuesday, Sen. Jim Banks praised Justice Clarence Thomas as a hero, framing Thomas’s 91-page dissent as proof of his devotion to President Donald Trump’s agenda—even as Thomas found himself in the minority on the high c
When the Supreme Court delivered its final opinions of the term on Tuesday, Sen. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) used the moment to elevate Justice Clarence Thomas—declaring him the “greatest living human being” and casting his positions as a compass for Republicans.
Banks’s praise landed just hours after Thomas released a scathing 91-page dissent following the court’s decision rejecting the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship. In that dissent. Thomas argued that the ruling “devalues” the sanctity of American citizenship and said he did not believe the opinion will “stand the test of time.”.
The birthright citizenship fight didn’t just go the other way—it split the court in a way that energized the right. The decision itself was a 5-4 ruling that found allies in Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett. For many conservatives, those votes lit the fuse for backlash.
Barrett took the brunt of that anger. She was not only part of the majority in the birthright citizenship case, but also authored the majority opinion that shot down the Trump administration’s bid to void a Mississippi law granting late-arriving mail-in ballots a grace period to be counted.
Even with Trump having packed the Supreme Court with a conservative majority during his first term. the week’s decisions left him facing several steep setbacks. For Republicans watching closely. the losses on the court didn’t just reshape the legal landscape—they also reshaped who they look to as the standard-bearer inside the building itself: Thomas. whose dissent turned into rallying material almost as soon as the opinions landed.
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Thomas said it devalues citizenship or whatever but it’s still the law now so what’s the big hero thing?
I don’t get why they’re calling him the greatest living human being over a dissent. Like… dissent means he didn’t win right? Sounds like politicians just hype whoever they want.
So Banks is praising Thomas because Thomas is mad that birthright citizenship got rejected? Wait, I thought the court rejected Trump’s attempt to restrict it, meaning it stayed. But the headline says “loss” like people got kicked out? This whole thing is confusing.
Meanwhile people can’t even figure out what’s going on with the ballots and now they’re doing Supreme Court pep rallies. I swear it’s always the same: Roberts and Barrett are “good” when they agree, and then everyone loses it when they don’t. Also Thomas writing 91 pages doesn’t automatically mean he’s right, just means he had a lot of time.