On the Weekly Standard’s website, Adam J. White has an excellent piece that dismantles Jeffrey Toobin’s criticism of Justice Thomas for (supposedly) not having written significant majority opinions. One excerpt:

What a cramped view of a justice’s legacy and influence. Even when Toobin concedes perfunctorily that Thomas’s solo opinions have “introduced certain conservative ideas into the bloodstream of Supreme Court opinions that have later commanded majorities,” he’s selling the justice short. Thomas’s larger body of dissents and concurrences have carved a path for an entire generation of originalist (or “textualist“) judges writing opinions in the federal and state courts, not to mention a generation of conservative lawyers who write the briefs and argue cases before them.

More broadly, White exposes Toobin’s “long history of criticizing, denouncing, and belittling Justice Thomas” and his inconsistent and makeshift standards for doing so.