By John L. Dorman
Business Insider
June 26, 2022
When Thomas was asked if the Supreme Court served to protect liberties, he said the nine-member body was only “one part of the effort.”
“You protect your liberty. It’s your country. We are one part of the effort, and it is the obligation of the citizens to at least know what their liberties are and to be informed,” he said.
He added: “I think we are allowing ourselves to be ruled when we turn all that over to someone else and we’re saying, ‘Rule me.’ Does it mean we get to make all the decisions? No. We have a system for doing that, but a part of that is our role in it, and our informed role in it, not what is said on TV, not what is said by some half-informed person.”