Clarence Thomas signals his intent to blow up the entire federal tax code: analyst

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently found himself on the losing side of a case known as Moore v. United States where the justices turned away a bid by wealthy conservatives to gut the federal tax code and prevent the establishment of a wealth tax in the future. But Thomas would have gone much further, wrote court analyst Mark Joseph Stern for Slate.

Rather, he wrote, Thomas — who has been at the heart of several recent scandals involving undisclosed gifts from billionaires — wanted to blow up the 16th Amendment...