Teflon Keith

Current Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has been pretty well known to followers of American politics, specifically since 2006 when he was first elected to the U.S. House. After serving six terms in Congress, Ellison has won two narrow victories for Minnesota A.G. 

In the near 20 years Ellison has been in the mainstream arena of electoral politics, it has struck me that he has never uttered anything of substance in that whole time. It's one thing to be a Democrat who's misguided about policy, but Ellison takes it to another level with his utter vapidity. His latest hit was a disgusting diatribe targeting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 

NEW: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison goes on racist rant, compares Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to a 'house slave.'

The racially charged comments came during an interview with the Michigan Chronicle.

Ellison went as far as saying that Thomas reminded him of… pic.twitter.com/A4WeXG7bSx

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 17, 2023

I know Ellison is no longer a licensed attorney, but you would think someone who possesses his legal background would be able to address Thomas's jurisprudence and the substance of his majority/concurring opinions as opposed to the obligatory ad hominem. But therein lies a greater point. Progs firmly believe the only thing standing in the way of their radical left utopia is that pesky third co-equal branch of government that serves as a check on legislative and executive overreach. Why do you think you've been hearing so many shrieks from the left to expand the number of seats on SCOTUS? They'd rather it act as a shadow legislature as opposed to making judgements within the framework of the U.S. Constitution. 

Ellison's screed also underscores his "Urban Progressive Privilege" in that there has been nary a mention of it on CNN or MSNBC. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that if a high profile black Republican AG like Daniel Cameron of Kentucky were to impugn the motives of black SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, those aforementioned networks would that night cobble together pearl-clutching, talking-head roundtables to levy similar attacks upon Cameron.

And to the extent Minnesota media covered it, here was WCCO-TV's headline: 

AG Ellison says Justice Clarence Thomas "needs to be impeached," report says.

And if you read the story at the link, there is literally not one single mention of Ellison comparing another black man to a "house slave." That would seem to be a more explosive part of the story than what seem like daily calls for Thomas to be impeached. 

Just a disgusting display all around.

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