Rumors swirled on-line this week after Justice Clarence Thomas was mysteriously absent from the Supreme Courtroom whereas oral arguments had been underway, RadarOnline.com can report.
Justice Thomas, 75, was mysteriously absent from the Supreme Courtroom’s oral arguments on Monday. The court docket gave no cause for his sudden absence.
Whereas Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged Justice Thomas’s absence and confirmed that Thomas was “not on the bench as we speak,” he failed to supply a cause why.
Chief Justice Roberts additionally confirmed that Thomas would “take part totally” within the two circumstances being argued on Monday by way of briefs and transcripts from the day’s proceedings.
A court docket spokesperson additionally reportedly failed to supply a cause why Thomas was not on the bench on Monday, based on NBC Information.
Thomas’s absence created important hypothesis on-line – significantly as a result of the Supreme Courtroom justice is the oldest of the court docket’s 9 sitting members.
“An sickness, maybe?” one excited X person wrote beneath an article that confirmed Thomas’s mysterious absence on Monday.
“Go into the sunshine, Clarence,” one other person quipped. “There’s peace and serenity within the gentle.”
“Good I hope he has to depart the Courtroom,” a 3rd particular person responded.
In the meantime, others criticized Thomas for his mysterious absence from the Supreme Courtroom on Monday.
“When you work at Taco Bell and do not present up on your shift, and provide no clarification on your absence, you get fired,” one particular person tweeted after Thomas failed to seem for the day’s oral arguments.
“I might like to have a job the place I don’t present as much as work, nonetheless receives a commission and nonetheless have a job,” a second particular person tweeted.
“He is on a fishing journey with Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo,” one particular person wrote.
“All bills paid Trip?” quipped one other.
“Vaca time is arising quickly sufficient,” but yet another X person tweeted. “He have to be frightfully busy researching unique places, reserving yachts and cabins, reserving reservations and care and feeding of the billionaires that make all of it doable. I am shocked he has any time left for work in any respect to be honest.”