Abby Phillip Accuses Clarence Thomas of Pushing an Anti-Progressive Agenda in Speech Defending the Declaration of Independence

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THOMAS: "Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a Constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights."
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PHILLIP: "I think a lot of people would hear that and they would hear somebody who has a very clear agenda and maybe isn‘t taking a look at each case and the text and making rulings individually, but is looking at things through a very, very strict ideological lens."