Justice Thomas on 2nd Amendment: ‘We Want To Pretend [It] Doesn’t Exist’

Thomas on 2nd Amendment: 'We Want To Pretend [It] Doesn't Exist' (CNS News)

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said on Wednesday that the Constitution contains everything needed to interpret the law, despite efforts by some to downplay certain portions of it, particularly the Second Amendment.

Thomas was asked by John Malcolm, director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, about ensuring personal and economic liberty.

“You talk a little bit about privileges or immunities; you’ve made some statements about substantive due process,” Malcolm said at the Heritage’s Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture in Washington, D.C. where Thomas made his remarks. “So when you look at different clauses in terms of protecting personal liberties, economic liberties, which clauses do you sort of gravitate to – due process clause, equal protection clause, privileges or immunities clause or what other provisions?”