And there you have it folks….
5 or 6 judges may single handily erase ‘Rights’ Americans thought they had….
This week it has been guns and abortion….
Now out loud ?
A judge whose wife seems to have been workin g to0 help an ex-President overthrow the country is talking about throwing out more ‘Rights’ ….
FIVE or Six other human being working to disenfranchise MILLIONS….
No Congress….
No President…
Just 5 or 6 other Americans weilding MORE power then the elected ones using the law as their own sword…..
People gotta stop saying thew US Supreme Court is NOT political…
That is bold faced lie……
What is wrong with picture?
Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a concurring opinion released on Friday that the Supreme Court “should reconsider” its past rulings codifying rights to contraception access, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage.
The sweeping suggestion from the current court’s longest-serving justice came in the concurring opinion he authored in response to the court’s ruling revoking the constitutional right to abortion, also released on Friday.
In his concurring opinion, Thomas — an appointee of President George H.W. Bush — wrote that the justices “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” — referring to three cases having to do with Americans’ fundamental privacy, due process and equal protection rights.
“If the rationale of the decision as released were to be sustained, a whole range of rights are in question. A whole range of rights,” President Joe Biden said of the draft opinion at the time. “And the idea [that] we’re letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions, would be a fundamental shift in what we’ve done.”
The court’s liberal wing — Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — echoed those concerns in a dissenting opinion released on Friday, writing that “no one should be confident that this majority is done with its work.”
The constitutional right to abortion “does not stand alone,” the three justices wrote. “To the contrary, the Court has linked it for decades to other settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation.”….
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The court’s majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, repeatedly insists that the justices’ decision to abandon Roe poses no threat to other precedents.
“Our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito wrote. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
However, the court’s liberal wing argued that assurance was unsatisfactory, given Thomas’ simultaneous invitation on Friday to open up numerous other precedents for review….
jamesb says
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
According to one of his law clerks, as reported by
@nytimes
in 1993, Justice Clarence Thomas privately said,
“The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I’m going to make their lives miserable for 43 years.”
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awwHALEnaww
@awwHALEnaww
The best way to understand the last 30 years of Clarence Thomas’ rulings is to read this passage from Jane Mayer’s book about his confirmation process:
https://amazon.com/Strange-Justice-Selling-Clarence-Thomas/dp/0395633184…
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Moe — Quadruple Vaxxed Vet — Unaffiliated Voter
@ColMorrisDavis
· Jan 19
As a 35 year member of the Supreme Court bar, I regret the steady decline in public confidence in the Court. It’s hyper-partisan hacks like Clarence Thomas who undermine trust in the Court. There’s rarely any reason to guess how he’ll vote. twitter.com/steve_vladeck/…