On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on Roe v Wade that has caused the left to have one of the largest temper tantrums to date.
This should have been done years ago since the ruling was not even remotely constitutional and should have never been the law of the land.
However, the bloodlust, rabid leftists cannot seem to comprehend that at all and have been busy fomenting their base with half-truths and fanning the flames of division.
Abortion has not been outlawed but handed back to the states for them to decide on, but logic has never been a leftist’s strong suit.
At any rate, if you thought that was the end of controversial cases being revised by the SCOTUS then think again, since it seems as if they are just getting started.
Justice Thomas believes that it is high time to “reconsider” a number of other key rulings, including landmark decisions that granted a right to contraception and same-sex marriage.
Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
The 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut protected the right of marital privacy against state restrictions on contraception. The high court ruled 7-2 in Griswold.
In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Lawrence v. Texas that a Texas law that made it a crime for two people of the same sex to engage in intimate consensual sexual conduct violated the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, invalidating sodomy laws nationwide.
And 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges held that the right for same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed under both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The 5-4 ruling legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and all of the United States territories.
Notably, Thomas was on the court for the latter two decisions — and dissented in both.
Thomas, 74, the longest-serving member of the high court, has long contended that Roe was wrongfully decided and has long called for the Supreme Court to reconsider the case.
“Our abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled,” Thomas wrote in a dissent in 2020 in a case that blocked a Louisiana abortion restriction. “The idea that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment understood the Due Process Clause to protect a right to abortion is farcical.”
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