Earlier this year, a video of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaking candidly about a conversation he had with then-Sen. Joe Biden surfaced.
Biden presided over the Senate Judiciary Committee during Thomas’ confirmation hearings in 1991, when George H. W. Bush, the president at the time, nominated Thomas to join the nation’s highest court.
“Finding out what you mean when you say that you would apply the natural law of philosophy to the constitution is, in my view, the single most important task of this comm …