Posted on 06/24/2022 2:08:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas revealed he has laws protecting gay marriage and contraception in his sights, after axing Roe v. Wade.
Following Friday's landmark decision, Thomas called on his fellow jurists to overturn previous rulings that followed similar legal precedent.
The prospective law changes, released in a concurring opinion of the decision penned by Thomas, would see limits put on gay marriage, same-sex sexual activity, and citizens' access to birth control.
It comes as the Supreme Court controversially elected to strike down Roe v. Wade, a nearly 50 year-old decision that granted women the constitutional right to abortion.
In his separate opinion also released Friday, Thomas - the court's longest-serving justice - welcomed the guidance, but noted how it falls short of addressing citizens rights' apart from abortion.
The 74-year-old justice, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, went on to declare the court should reconsider other cases that fall under previous due process precedents.
Thomas' argument was entrenched in the belief that since the Constitution’s Due Process Clause was found not to secure a right to an abortion in Friday's ruling, the court should apply that same logic to other landmark cases.
He cited three in particular - including 1965's Griswold v. Connecticut, which allowed for married couples to buy and use contraception, and 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges, which allowed same-sex couples to legally marry.
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>They better do it quick. if the rats still run the senate after the midterms they will try and pack the court to prevent the next Roe case from losing.
Oh they already have that planned. All the senate votes for PA get counted by Shapiro and GA votes get counted by Fulton Cty. Warnock and Fetterman win, no matter much of a vegetable Fetterman is.
The Dems will lose the House, probably by a lot, because the blue cities in red states don’t get to count those votes.
I think the big decider is if the GA court goes along with a state hand recount of Dominion votes. If that ever happens, it’s over. The vote totals will be so different that the cheat will be obvious.
Clarence going to go out with a bang! What’s he got to loose at this point ..
Let’s roll!
No matter what Obama claimed, we ARE a Christian nation...founded and grounded with Biblical guidance.
Making gay marriages equal .... we have gays.. trans whatever.. and we have screwed up youth... screwed up because it isn’t right.
Bible.. God’s direction... thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind.. it is an obimination.
The gays should be treated fair.. but to make a statement of approval just gives way to more and more of what God has said is wrong.
Making it an okay lifestyle in the United States. ...doesnt make it acceptable in heaven.
I just hope he and his wife have damn good protection.
I doubt the democrats will sit peaceably by for a flood of conservative opinions. There are many Uniparty (R) senators who are very much abortion apologists. A Collins or Murkowski could join the effort to re codify R v W. It’s just a matter of time before “fixing” the court will be the only way to quell the righteous violence. We also see the active recruitment of violent, anti conservative operatives. If you can’t “fix” the court through legislation, they might fix the court by fixing individual justices.
What happen to Biden Supreme Court Reform Commission?
“The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals. The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices.”.
queer civil unions i couldn’t care less, just get it out of the church...
The hype from the left will ignore what I think is paramount to Justice Thomas, which is that massively more important than the ends, when it comes to “rights”, is the means - by what Constitutional method do they become rights, and he objects to using the Supreme Court to simply declare they exist, when they are not enumerated in the Constitution, by mre judicial fiat, just to please some current public opinion or public claim.
They will paint Thomas as “anti-gay” or whatever, but to Thomas his personal views are 100% not relevant to his legal views on the Constitution.
It can’t commence fast enough.
Well, it depends on two things:
1) how badly the economy’s f***ed by November. If we’re looking at $7-8 gas and 15% inflation, NO ONE is going to stand with the Democrats. They secretly love this decision because they think it distracts everyone from the economy (and it doesn’t).
2) if any traction is reached on voter fraud. We’ve already seen 2 REALLY BAD vote aberrations in Georgia and there’s a small chance the whole state might get recounted. Also, if AGs in states start prosecuting DNC voting NGOs, then the Dems are really going to suffer. Also, if citizens volunteer to just go out and watch voting boxes on their own time, you’re going to see reticence among the traffickers even when the media goes insane about it.
The nice thing about this is that Dems feel demoralized and Reps are feeling better about themselves. It’s less of desperation on the right and more about a message and a way now.
Kennedy. During arguments he expressed misgivings about upending a thousand years of human history and culture and voted to do just that.
I have heard he was pressured by a gay relative. So the institution of Marriage was shredded because Kennedy was worried about being invited to Thanksgiving
Marriage was first mentioned in the Old Testament. The left can make laws for gayslgbqxyz and not call it marriage.
The left wants to pervert all that God created. They hate Him that much….yet so many say they don’t believe in God.
Gay marriage yes.
Certain forms of contraception, perhaps.
Griswold v. Connecticut is the infamous “penumbras and emanations” decision.
That’s not actually what Thomas is proposing.
His argument is with the process used to get to the ruling. Like Roe, his claim is that it was not decided in a proper Constituitional context.
“Moreover, apart from being a demonstrably incorrect
reading of the Due Process Clause, the “legal fiction” of substantive due process is “particularly dangerous.” “
The rightness of the issue is not to be decided within “substantive due process”, as due process does not guarantee any rights. He offers other paths that maybe could be taken for the other cases mentioned in the original article.
But those as well as Roe are nowhere in the Constitution and better left to the Legislative branches.
More precisely, “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people’, as that moldy, old document reads.
Argue and convince your fellow citizens, as it shoud be.
I hope Thomas lives to 110 and never retires. What an American treasure.
The democrats threatening scotus sure doesn’t help their cause
Nothing in the Constitution provides for any marriage, does it?
Yes, God bless Justice Thomas.
Of course, the President tried to lynch him.
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