‘If
Roe is a "states' rights" issue as Justice Samuel Alito's draft indicates, is
Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage? Sen. Mike Braun (R-Indiana) already seemed to say that quiet part out loud when he indicated twice during a call with media in March that the Supreme Court was wrong in the 1967 Loving decision, only to backtrack hours later.
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If
Roe is a "states' rights" issue, is
Obergfell v. Hodges? It has long been comical to me that people howl about the "sanctity of marriage" and that it should only be between a man and a woman and not same-sex, yet this is a country where roughly half of all marriages end in divorce. Yes, yes, very sacred.
Obergfell, which guaranteed all people the right to marry, was decided less than seven years ago.
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Is
Brown v. Board of Education "deeply rooted"? The ban on racial segregation in public schools was decided only in 1954, though one can argue there's little done to uphold it even now, 70 years later, when entire districts still have rules policing Black children's hair and banning them from receiving education in schools if they do not comply.’
The Supreme Court leak indicates a strong pull on a delicate thread is coming — and the opinion explicitly references other decisions that suddenly seem under threat of unspooling, too.
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No one should believe the right’s “states’ rights” lie – that’s merely a façade behind which conservatives attempt to hide their true agenda hostile to the rights and protected liberties of all Americans.