Justice stresses need to defer to supreme court rulings in spite of his own disregard in overturning right to abortion
The conservative US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has criticised a lower federal court for ignoring legal precedent in a dissenting opinion that overlooks his own disregard for half a century of prior judgments in overturning the constitutional right to abortion.
Thomas stressed the need to defer to previous supreme court rulings as he criticised the sixth circuit of appeal in Ohio, which recently ruled in favour of a man who had been convicted and jailed for attempted murder.
