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36. I had forgotten that Clarence Thomas left the right to 'interracial marriage"!! Thanks for the reminder.

Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:28 PM

Jan 31

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So what's to stop another court from going after other unenumerated rights by employing the same legal framework that was used to overturn Roe v. Wade?
Justice Samuel Alito for one tries to allay that concern in the lead Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization opinion, taking care to distinguish abortion from other rights, only to have Justice Clarence Thomas pull the rug out.

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote in concurrence. “Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
For court watchers, almost as notable as the hit list of cases the conservative justice explicitly names was the one he left out. Loving v. Virginia — which in 1967 established a right to interracial marriage — was cited by every other opinion in the Dobbs case when discussing substantive due process

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My thought, too. Just how long do these people have to wait for court ordered restitution? Deuxcents Jan 31 #26

Yea no shit! Hell bluestarone Jan 31 #27

do the crime, do the time Repugs used to tell me rurallib Jan 31 #7

BINGO! OldBaldy1701E Jan 31 #9

Fuck her. Oopsie Daisy Jan 31 #14

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Screw you Kim!! I remember her well,maybe someone has a pic looking smug Bengus81 Jan 31 #16

Why is she still spewing hate and wasting oxygen??? niyad Jan 31 #17

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LOL BumRushDaShow Jan 31 #19

I think she's been hoping some of her cheering squad would pay it for her. Solly Mack Jan 31 #20

I think she is just grifting. She hopes someone with money will hear her plea and give her the money. usaf-vet Jan 31 #21

i hope she loses, barbtries Jan 31 #24

Don't laugh too soon, guys. Clarence Thomas mentioned Obergefell in his concurrence with Dobbs... Hekate Jan 31 #25

My jaw dropped when I saw this post--there is the big R for Religion in it and do believe she riversedge Jan 31 #32

When Dobbs was passed, I cried for 3 days. But when I *read* Dobbs, I went ballistic... Hekate Jan 31 #33

I had forgotten that Clarence Thomas left the right to 'interracial marriage"!! Thanks for the reminder. riversedge Jan 31 #36

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I will never forget what she looked like then. I will avoid ever seeing her again. My EYES....... twodogsbarking Jan 31 #31

Sell you house Kimmy.................how about forfeiting your pension............. turbinetree Jan 31 #35

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