Posted on 06/27/2022 3:31:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After talking about the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade on Monday, the 'View' panelists discussed what might be next, including other rights guaranteed by cases Thomas suggested revisiting.
Whoopi Goldberg is among those calling out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for saying the court “should reconsider” past rulings that secured access to contraceptives and marriage equality.
In his concurring opinion in the court’s Friday ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Thomas said the court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” cases that made contraception, same-gender relationships and same-gender marriages, respectively, legal across the U.S.
“Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,'” Thomas wrote. “We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
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Goldberg wondered where the Court would stop in terms of assessing rights that were not explicitly stated in the original version of the Constitution.
“What’s next, as Clarence Thomas is signaling? They would like to get rid of contraception,” Goldberg said, during an extended discussion on Monday’s View about Friday’s Dobbs ruling and what’s next. “Do you understand sir? No, because you don’t have to use it. … You better hope that they don’t come for you, Clarence, and say you should not be married to your wife, who happens to be white.”
She also suggested that the court might want to revive the “three-fifths clause,” applying to enslaved people.
“We were not in the Constitution either,” Goldberg said of her and Thomas. “We were not even people in the Constitution. … You better hope that no one says you’re not in the constitution. You’re back to being a quarter of a person, because that’s not going to work either.”
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough also took issue with Thomas’ opinion on Monday’s Morning Joe, “He talked about how contraception rights should be reviewed again. He talked about marriage equality, how that should be opened up. He talked about what consenting adults can do in the privacy of their bedroom, that should be taken up. But he didn’t, for some reason, talk about Loving. … He didn’t talk about interracial marriages.”
He continued: “I saw that as being so typical of these Republicans, these so-called ‘pro-life’ Republicans, and what they would do for their own children, what they would do for their own loved ones if medically necessary if there was a crisis, and yet, what they won’t do for poor women in rural states that are thousands of miles away from where they can have a safe procedure.”
YEAH....the intellectual giant she is..../sarc
She’s a giant alright.
Total whore.
Ha! Good one. And true!
Whoppie is 7/5 th a human
Nor you Whoopi. Pray.
Remember you were married to the bartender at Cheers.
You know, the one in black face.
5.56mm
Mostly peaceful threat? Merit judee garland and the doj? Meh. Nothing to see here, move along.
and not the good kind
So opinions from a whore, a foreigner, a former heroin addict, and a black chick that changed her name to sound Jewish for Hollywood...
Fat stupid ugly bag of gas……
Right back atcha.
He’s just a funk soul brother
Why is she getting away with threatening Clarence Thomas?
Whopper Goldberg
I’m beginning to see why there’s a possibility of a food
shortage.
Gosh Whoopie, leave some for the rest of the state.
What did Ted Danson say about her? Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
He is “they” isn’t he?
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