Biden disparages Clarence Thomas as justice who 'likes to spend a lot of time on yachts'

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President Biden disparaged Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in an interview with the New Yorker and referred to him as a justice who "likes to spend a lot of time on yachts."

The New Yorker asked the president during an interview if he believed the Supreme Court would apply the legal rationale in the Dobbs case, which overturned Roe v. Wade, to same-sex marriage, "the decriminalization of homosexuality," and contraception access.

Thomas raised the possibility in his concurring opinion in the Dobbs ruling. Biden told The New Yorker that he didn't think the Supreme Court majority would go there.

"I think that a couple on the Court would go considerably further," Biden told the New Yorker, specifically, "the guy who likes to spend a lot of time on yachts."

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The New Yorker's reporter asked Biden if he was referring to Justice Thomas and wrote that the president "grinned" at the question.

The president also said during the rare media interview that he wanted to pass Roe v. Wade "as the law of the land" and said Democrats would need to gain more seats in Congress.

"I’ve never been supportive of, you know, ‘It’s my body, I can do what I want with it.’ But I have been supportive of the notion that this is