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โ€˜Support for freedom of speech is declining dangerously,โ€™ Justice Alito said, while Justice Thomas decried โ€˜nastiness and the liesโ€™ in the Beltway.

In separate remarks at two different events on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued warnings about the state of affairs in America today, including support for freedom of speech โ€œdeclining dangerouslyโ€ and the nationโ€™s capital becoming a โ€œhideousโ€ place where cancel culture runs rampant.

Justice Thomas spoke at a conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama, while Justice Alito delivered a commencement address at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic college in Ohio, with both of the conservative-minded judges painting a dark pictureโ€”while encouraging action and offering hope.

At the Alabama event, Justice Thomas was asked to comment by the moderatorโ€”U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelleโ€”about what itโ€™s like to work โ€œin a world that seems meanspirited.โ€

โ€œI think thereโ€™s challenges to that,โ€ Justice Thomas said. โ€œWeโ€™re in a world and weโ€”certainly my wife and I the last two or three years itโ€™s beenโ€”just the nastiness and the lies, itโ€™s just incredible.โ€

Justice Thomas has faced heavy fire from Democrats who accuse him of skirting disclosure rules, of corruption in general, and of being too cozy with wealthy Republicans. They have not been able to point to any specific court cases in which the justice has misbehaved. Some activists have even pushed for Justice Thomasโ€™s impeachment.

By contrast, over 100 former Supreme Court clerks signed an open letter last year defending Justice Thomasโ€™s integrity, calling him a man of โ€œunwavering principleโ€ whose independence is โ€œunshakable.โ€ They called various critical stories that have targeted him as โ€œmaliciousโ€ and โ€œperpetuating the ugly assumption that the Justice cannot think for himself.โ€

โ€œThey are part of a larger attack on the Court and its legitimacy as an institution,โ€ the letter also stated. โ€œThe picture they paint of the Court and the man for whom we worked bears no resemblance to reality.โ€

Public opinion polls suggest public trust in the Supreme Court recently fell to new lows.

Addressing the criticism, Justice Thomas said at the Alabama conference that Washington had become a โ€œhideousโ€ place where โ€œpeople pride themselves in being awful,โ€ while characterizing America beyond the Beltway as a place where regular people โ€œdonโ€™t pride themselves in doing harmful things.โ€

Byย Tom Ozimek

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