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elleng

(130,901 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:56 PM Jun 2022

*Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion

overturning Roe v. Wade, laid out a vision that fomented fears about what other rights could disappear: The same rationale that the Supreme Court used to declare there was no right to abortion, he said, should also be used to overturn cases establishing rights to contraception, same-sex consensual relations and same-sex marriage.

In the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel A. Alito, the court said that nothing in its decision “should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Justice Thomas said he agreed with that.'

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court

Effect on Loving v. Virginia???

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*Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion (Original Post) elleng Jun 2022 OP
Loving was based on the equal protection clause onenote Jun 2022 #1
Plus he's married to a white lady. Frasier Balzov Jun 2022 #3
I think he is a very disturbed man. madaboutharry Jun 2022 #2
Thomas is one sick fuck dalton99a Jun 2022 #4
Just fucking die already vercetti2021 Jun 2022 #5
What's he gonna do when his marriage to a white woman is declared illegal? Novara Jun 2022 #6
That hate-filled disaster thomas strikes again. empedocles Jun 2022 #7

onenote

(42,702 posts)
1. Loving was based on the equal protection clause
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:57 PM
Jun 2022

so it would be easily distinguished by Thomas from the substantive due process-based decisions he thinks should be overruled.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
7. That hate-filled disaster thomas strikes again.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 01:07 PM
Jun 2022

thomas' 'guns galore' opinion was not enough. Imagine if thomas got 'guns galore' passed in 2020.

As Judge Luttig wrote: many [Jan.6, 2021] riot defendants'' have said they knew the District of Columbia's restriction on concealed cary '' and accordingly left their guns at home.'' This ''may well have prevented a massacre that day.'' [Credit to G. Will for bringing this to my attention].

Imagine the possibilities that day: the murder of Pence & Pelosi, trump getting to use the Insurrection Act to try and perhaps succeed in seizing the Presidency, etc., etc.

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