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Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a Friday opinion that the nation's top judicial body should overrule a previous decision legalizing LGBTQ marriage nationwide and a former ruling that determined criminalizing sodomy is unconstitutional. Thomas issued a concurring opinion with the Supreme Court 's 5 to 4 decision overturning abortion rights as established by Roe v. Wade on Friday. The conservative justice, who was appointed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush , took aim at the Court's 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas and its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges . Lawrence established that criminal penalties for sodomy or private sexual acts between consenting adults are unconstitutional. That decision came down in a 6 to 3 ruling. Obergefell legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in a 5 to 4 decision. Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, dissented in both the 2003 and 2015 Supreme Court decisions. In his Friday concurring … [Read more...] about Clarence Thomas wants SCOTUS to “correct the error” of legal gay marriage

President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that overturns Roe v. Wade while he also criticized comments Justice Clarence Thomas made in his concurring opinion about LGBTQ+ marriage. The president delivered remarks to the nation hours after the court's decision was announced. He decried the ruling, saying it will harm "so many more rights that we've come to take for granted, that are ingrained in the fabric of this country," such as the "right to marry the person you love." "Justice Thomas said as much today. He explicitly called to reconsider the right of marriage equality [and] the right of couples to make their choices on contraception," Biden said, adding that the court is taking the country on an "extreme and dangerous path." The Supreme Court's Friday decision overturns the 1973 ruling on Roe , which protected women who seek an abortion "without undue restrictive interference from the government," guaranteed under the 14th … [Read more...] about Biden warns of “dangerous path” as Clarence Thomas eyes gay marriage

Republican senatorial candidate Blake Masters enjoys the financial and political support of his longtime friend, mentor, and billionaire business partner Peter Thiel , who is gay. But Masters, who attended Thiel’s wedding, also apparently believes Thiel’s marriage should be illegal. “It’s not just Disney, you know—‘follow your heart,’” Masters said at a campaign event earlier this year. “It has a point.” That “point,” he said, is making children. And since there’s no procreation within same-sex marriages, Masters reasoned, those unions don’t have a point—and therefore should be banned. Masters, 34, shared this perspective in February with an audience at a Republican Women’s Club event in San Tan Valley, Arizona, where he’s running for Senate. The 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, he told this group, amounted to “squinting and making up so-called rights in the Constitution.” “The Supreme Court should not be deciding gay marriage. If this … [Read more...] about Blake Masters’ Views on Gay Marriage May Surprise His Political Master Peter Thiel

A video showing supporters of former President Donald Trump calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges , the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the United States has gone viral on social media. The comments came after Justice Clarence Thomas said in a concurring opinion to the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last week that the court has "a duty to ' correct the error ' established" in rulings like Obergefell . In the video, Jason Selvig, a member of the comedy duo the Good Liars, speaks to a man and woman wearing Trump apparel. It is not clear where the video was taken but the caption states that Selvig spoke to the pair over the weekend. The footage has so far been viewed over 400,000 times and shows Selvig trying to find out their opinions on the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade , the landmark 1973 case that secured the right to abortion in the United States. After the woman said she was against abortion, Selvig asked: … [Read more...] about Donald Trump supporters call on gay marriage to be overturned next

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has attracted widespread criticism from the left for the vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, along with further arguments signaling that SCOTUS may also overrule a previous decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide. The ruling and Thomas's role in it angered, among others, President Joe Biden , who issued a strong condemnation of the decision that limits abortion rights across the U.S. Many U.S. states have now—or are set to — ban abortion , but did Biden play a part in confirming Thomas for SCOTUS to begin with? The Claim A tweet, posted on 28 June 2022, responding to Biden's comments on Roe v. Wade claimed the president had "made sure" Thomas became a Supreme Court justice. "Too many people are mad about Thomas and not enough are mad that he's on the bench because Biden fought to install him there," another user wrote, in a tweet gathering more than 1,300 interactions. The Facts The claims about whether Biden helped … [Read more...] about Fact Check: Did Joe Biden ensure Clarence Thomas joined Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court has ended the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump. Both sides predicted the fight over abortion would continue, in state capitals and in Washington, and Justice Clarence Thomas, part of Friday’s majority, called on the court to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives. RELATED: Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What Coloradans need to know next about abortion rights. The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice … [Read more...] about Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortions

Protests continued in cities across the country Saturday after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that had guaranteed the right to abortion in the United States. As states began to enact abortion bans and clinics stopped offering the procedure, large crowds gathered in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, some jubilant, others dismayed at the decision that stripped away women’s constitutional right to abortion. Both sides predicted the fight over abortion would continue. Key highlights: President Joe Biden called it a “sad day” for the U.S. and said it would be up to voters in November to select candidates who would protect a host of rights — not just abortion but also marriage equality and the right to contraception. Centrist Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, suggested they were misled by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, two key votes in the decision to overturn Roe. SEE NEW … [Read more...] about Protests and celebrations as Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: Live updates

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 Amy Martin was 14 years old when Roe v. Wade was decided, establishing a right to abortion that she took for granted for nearly five decades. Martin was 56 when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, a right she took advantage of when she married her partner of 30 years last year. And when the court overturned that first decision on Friday, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing in his opinion that the court should next reexamine cases granting LGBTQ rights, Martin found herself seized with new terror that the second one could also fall. "What if gay marriage is the next thing?" said Martin, 63, who recently retired from her job at a Cleveland law office, and whose health-care benefits come from her wife's policy. "The fabric of our country and what it's been based on, it's fraying." As the implications of the court's abortion decision continued to … [Read more...] about The Supreme Court prompts the question: Who gets rights in America?

WASHINGTON -- At the end of the first full Supreme Court term with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito in place, liberal Justice Stephen Breyer said he was amazed -- and not in a particularly good way -- what President George W. Bush's nominees to the bench had accomplished. "It is not often that so few have so quickly changed so much," Breyer said in June 2007 as he dissented from a decision striking school integration programs in two cities. But it was nothing like this week. With the three nominees of President Donald Trump in each majority, the Supreme Court put a conservative shine on a greater role for religion in public life, the Second Amendment's protection of gun rights against legislatures' concerns of violence and then the biggest of them all: the long-awaited overturning of Roe v. Wade's guarantee of a fundamental right to abortion. A Supreme Court conservative majority remaking the court's jurisprudence on a number of fronts showed that it is … [Read more...] about Emboldened Supreme Court majority shows it’s eager for change

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youths. The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen. Critics have expressed fear that the legal reasoning behind the high court ruling could lead to a rollback of decisions involving such matters as gay marriage, birth control and parental rights. The state is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction and let it enforce an Alabama law that would make it a felony to give puberty blockers or hormones to transgender minors to help affirm their gender identity. In its historic ruling last … [Read more...] about Alabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case