Justice Thomas blasts leftist media: ‘I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours'

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasted the left-wing media on Friday during a discussion on racial inequality and the Supreme Court, ripping into his critics after suffering months of scrutiny from progressive reporters and pundits.

"One of the things I’d say in response to the media is when they talk about, especially early on, about the way I did my job, I said ‘I will absolutely leave the court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours—and that was meant as a compliment really," Thomas said as the crowd burst into laughter, Fox News reported.

"It really is good to be me—it really is," the 73-year-old justice added.

Thomas has long been a target for the progressive media and has, on 2020’s election night, gained the nickname “Uncle Clarence” after MSNBC host Joy Reid made the comment, unsubtly referencing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

"I think what scares people is that if [Trump] decides to do something that legally makes no sense... but if they somehow manage to stumble into the Supreme Court, do any of you guys trust Uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law?" she asked.

Later, in February of 2021, the Washington Post was forced to issue a "clarification" after a news article claimed his thinking was similar to that of a "white conservative."

Thomas has been outspoken since a leaked draft opinion on Roe v Wade came to light earlier this month and has since claimed the leak fundamentally altered the nation’s highest court.

"I do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad... I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them," Thomas said, adding that a loss of trust in the Court is the "kind of infidelity" that is impossible to undo.