Justice Thomas Baffled SCOTUS Won’t Hear Case Against Blue States Handing Truck Licenses To Illegals Like Candy

Justice Clarence Thomas blasted the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for blocking Florida’s lawsuit against two blue states that gave a commercial driver’s license to an immigrant who later caused a deadly crash.

The Supreme Court declined to hear Florida’s lawsuit against California and Washington over undocumented truck drivers, with both Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissenting. Thomas wrote in his dissent that he doubts the court “has discretion to refuse to hear cases within its exclusive original jurisdiction.”

“This Court has exclusive original jurisdiction over  suit because it involves one State suing other States,” Thomas wrote. “Article III establishes that ‘n all Cases . . . in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have Jurisdiction.’ … Congress has made our original jurisdiction ‘exclusive’ in ‘all controversies between two or more States,’ meaning that no other court can hear this case.”

“‘We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given,’” according to Thomas’ dissent. “‘If this Court does not exercise jurisdiction over a controversy between two States, then the complaining State has no forum in which to seek relief.’”

Thomas also asserted in his dissent that “the only addressing this Court’s jurisdiction over these kinds of cases nowhere contemplates a process of discretionary review,” adding “nonetheless, this Court has adopted a discretionary approach to its exclusive original based on ‘policy judgments that are in conflict with the policy choices that Congress made in the statutory text specifying the Court’s original jurisdiction.’”