Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the court should reconsider rights like birth control and same sex marriage in future decisions after the court overturned abortion rights.
A group of demonstrators are outside of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not a protected right under the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that states can't deprive people of "life, liberty or property, without due process of law".
Justice Samuel Alito said in the court's opinion that its ruling Friday should only apply to abortion and not other rulings the court has made.
The court's abortion cases are unique and justices only considered this one set of circumstances, rather than rights granted through "substantive due process" as a whole.
The court has a duty to consider Obergefell and other precedents in future cases.
The court should issue a ruling saying the court cannot grant civil rights using the due process clause because it is a legal fiction, according to Thomas.
The liberals wrote that it was impossible to understand how the opinion did not threaten any other rights.
In the future, we should follow the text of the Constitution, which sets forth certain substantive rights that cannot be taken away, and adds a right to due process when life, liberty, or property is to be taken away. It should be eliminated from our jurisprudence at the earliest chance.
The liberal justices wrote in their dissent that they couldn't understand how anyone could be confident that today's opinion would be the last of its kind.
After weeks of anticipation, the Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday that overturns the 1973 precedent. President Joe Biden said "Mark my words: They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage." Several legal experts have warned that same-sex marriage rights are likely to be targeted after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion law of 1973. Legal experts think Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage, could also be at risk. Thomas and Alito wrote in October 2020 that the same-sex marriage ruling was threatening religious liberty and should be reconsidered.
The Supreme Court overturned a landmark abortion decision.
Legal experts fear that the rights of other people will be put at risk.
There is a possibility that birth control access could be in danger.
All Rights Reserved © 2024
