Interracial marriage now protected by law in New Jersey

[RandySF]

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Tuesday protecting people’s right to marry anyone of any race, a move meant to codify a long-established — but until now not explicitly protected in New Jersey — right in the wake of a string of conservative U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

The law comes just over a year after the nation’s top court overturned abortion rights, a ruling that exposed the vulnerability of long-settled law on matters like reproduction and marriage that historically have been seen as private.

Murphy’s action means interracial marriages will be protected by law in New Jersey even if the court’s conservative majority acts to overturn its 1956 landmark precedent, Loving v. Virginia, which prohibited states from outlawing marriages outside one’s race.

Murphy said enshrining New Jersey residents’ right to marry anyone of any race became necessary because the nation “faces an era of uncertainty regarding the basic principles of equality and personal freedom.”



https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/interracial-marriage-now-protected-by-law-in-new-jersey/

[cloudbase]

1. Loving was in 1967.

Easy typo.

[Hekate]

2. Good. I hope other states are going to do likewise. I remember how shocked I was when a friend told me

…that when she was born in California her Irish-American mother and Filipino father had no right to marry and she was considered the product of miscegenation. We were work colleagues. In my innocent ignorance I had grown up thinking that kind of shit happened in the South — I had no idea until then how widespread it was.

The country was put on notice about zombie-laws when Dobbs was passed by SCOTUS.

[Retrograde]

3. Inter-racial marriage was illegal until 1948

in California, when Perez v Sharp overturned the laws against it, which had been on the books since statehood in 1850. Interestingly by today's standards, one of the parties, Perez, was of Mexican ancestry and was considered legally white by the laws of the time.

[orleans]

4. i'm glad he did that. it's just mind blowing that this has become necessary

i wonder about other states --