Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said in a new book that he was disappointed that more Americans weren't more aware of the Constitution.
In the book, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words," co-edited by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta, Clarence Thomas was interviewed by Pack for over 30 hours over the course of a year.
Thomas said that people seem to be less focused on the constitution.
We as citizens have lost interest and that has been disappointing. Justice Scalia was perturbed by the fact that people tend to be more interested in their phones than their constitution. He said that they were interested in what they wanted rather than what was right in the country.
Thomas disagreed that the loss of interest is a burden for the Supreme Court.
He said it was a burden on the citizens. They are going to lose their rights.
The Supreme Court is only one part of the effort, according to Thomas.
You are protecting your freedom. You're in your country. He said that the citizens have an obligation to know what their liberties are.
When we turn all that over to someone else, we're saying, "Rule me," he said. We get to make all the decisions. It is not possible to say yes. 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 someone who doesn't know anything.
The 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States was overturned last week by Clarence Thomas.
On Friday, the Supreme Court voted to uphold a Mississippi abortion ban, but also voted to overturn the landmark abortion decision of 1973.
13 states had so-called "trigger laws" in place that effectively banned abortion procedures immediately after the court's ruling.
Thomas wrote that the court should consider prior rulings on contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage in making the case that the 14th Amendment's due process clause needs to be reviewed.
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