Hardly a case goes by without eight [Supreme Court] justices peppering lawyers with questions. Left, right and center, the justices ask and they ask and they ask. Sometimes they debate each other, leaving the lawyer at the podium helpless to jump in. Leaning back in his leather chair, often staring at the ceiling, [Clarence] Thomas never joins in.-Mark Sherman, of the Associated Press, on the fact that Thomas hasn't asked a question from the bench for at least two years.
I have read somewhere, although I can't find where, that Thomas rarely - if ever - writes opinions; that he does so only when forced (ie: the sole dissent).
Either way, the hapless Thomas must make the Bush family proud.
