The Supreme Court Justice wrote that the cases establishing same-sex marriage and contraceptives should be revisited.
In June alone, the conservative-slanted Supreme Court voted to weaken Miranda rights, required states to fund private religious schools, protected border patrol agents from excessive force claims, and lessened the requirements for concealed carry laws. As of this morning, Roe v. Wade has officially been undone, but as hinted in a concurrent opinion written by Justice Clarance Thomas, more rights might be on the way out.
Yes, Justice Thomas, whose wife was trying to text and email her way to overturn the 2020 Presidential election, says the court should revisit cases concerning contraception access, same-sex marriage, and relationships.
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We are currently living in a state of “what do we lose next?” Is it Brown v. Board of Education (1954)? Will it be Loving v. Virginia (1967)? (although that would be interesting for Justice Thomas to want to overturn.) Decisions like today didn’t happen in a vacuum or even start with Sen. Mitch McConnell’s refusal to grant Merrick Garland a vote for the vacant Supreme Court seat.
Republican-led states are choosing to weaponize the gaze and heavy hand of the Supreme Court – trying every little ideological disagreement they have in smaller courts just for a day like this. This is a political and systematic long game Republicans have been playing to set the country back when Black, people of color, women, and the LBGTQ+ had fewer protections, rights, and claims to citizenship.
