I take Thomas seriously. There will be more terrible Supreme Court decisions. You know the right-wing extremists want to do this and they don’t care about blowback from the public.
There's no question that the reasoning in Dobbs imperils other constitutional rights such as gay marriage, contraception, and consensual sodomy.
— Randall Eliason (@RDEliason) June 24, 2022
The Court reassures us that "abortion is different," but that difference is irrelevant to the Court's constitutional analysis. 1/
Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, fomented fears about what other rights could disappear: The same rationale, he said, should also be used to overturn rights to contraception and same-sex marriage. https://t.co/tMsDFDqmAI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2022
The Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe v. Wade could open the door for courts to overturn same-sex marriage, contraception and other rights https://t.co/rOFgArgazN
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 24, 2022
Abortion advocates fear access to birth control could be curtailed https://t.co/w9CByzCPgw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2022
If Thomas is correct, wouldn't the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia also have to be reversed, barring him from marrying Ginni?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 25, 2022
LGBTQ community braces for rollback of rights after abortion ruling https://t.co/BBcx7sbn9N
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2022
"I did not know how much my same sex-marriage depended on a woman's right to choose an abortion."@capehartj reacts to Justice Thomas wanting to revisit and overturn landmark rulings that legalized contraception, same-sex marriage, after the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. pic.twitter.com/nhBuj9IUCW
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 24, 2022
Thomas, J., concurring: "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell."
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 24, 2022
I look forward to the takes of those who yelled at people like me for worrying about implications beyond abortion.
Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right. https://t.co/ylDScVGcG4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2022
Right when I started this beat, I asked an antiabortion lawmaker when they’d be done. “Never,” they told me — because abortion is murder, and we can’t stop until there’s no more murder, anywhere.
— Caroline Kitchener (@CAKitchener) June 26, 2022
So I believe them when they say this is just the beginning.https://t.co/gHFXJ3EjqO
Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday praised the end of Roe, but sought to distance himself from Clarence Thomas' opinion suggesting overturning other rights. "These other privacy issues like contraception do not deal with the potential for life," he said. https://t.co/DSpTknuRHf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 26, 2022
Though the court did not weigh in on cases such as Griswold, Loving, Obergefell or Lawrence, Thomas suggested that the ruling should result in it revisiting & likely overturning those cases.
— Chabeli Carrazana (@ChabeliH) June 26, 2022
That's contraception, interracial marriage, marriage equality…https://t.co/AvynTLxdKt
Should everyone calm down about Justice Clarence Thomas urging the court to jettison the entire line of privacy precedents? Yes — and no, @RuthMarcus writes.https://t.co/dyAxP67oOJ
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 26, 2022
Sad! 