- The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, and Justice Samuel Alito dismissed the concerns as foolish.
- Clarence Thomas’ concurrence called on the high court to also “reconsider” a series of prominent cases.
- Just hours after the ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton endorsed revisiting the cases referenced by Thomas.
The dissenting justices said that the retrograde decision; which overturned Roe v. Wade last week; “places in peril other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage”. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority of the court; that was nominated by Republicans, laughed off the worries.
The extreme right-wing jurist claimed that his center-left counterparts; were merely attempting to “raise unwarranted anxiety; that our ruling may threaten those other liberties.”
As we discussed shortly after, Alito probably ought to have paid more attention; to Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion; in which he urged the Supreme Court to “reconsider”; a number of high-profile cases that, in his opinion; ought to be overturned because they involved; “demonstrably erroneous decisions.”
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Thomas cited three cases in particular: Obergefell v. Hodges, which established marriage equality on a federal level; Lawrence v. Texas, which ruled that laws against sodomy were unconstitutional; and Griswold v. Connecticut, which held that states cannot restrict; married couples’ access to contraception.
According to Thomas, it is now time to start going backward in each of these areas; allowing states to limit people’s access to contraception; same-sex couples’ right to get married; and even particular sex activities among consenting adults.
Paxton made an appearance on the conservative news network News Nation late last week; just hours after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; and the Texas Republican seemed to support the concept of reexamining; the precedents Thomas had cited.
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