I anticipate that the DEMS will start packing the SCOTUS
Supreme Court's decision on abortion could open the door to overturn same-sex marriage, contraception and other major rulingsThe Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday could open the door for courts to overturn same-sex marriage, contraception and other rights.
It's already set off a debate among justices over whether overturning Roe puts those precedents in danger.
The majority opinion from Justice Samuel Alito attempted to wall off its holding in Friday's abortion case from those other rulings, but Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to call explicitly for those other rulings to be revisited.
"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," Thomas wrote, referring to decisions on contraception, sodomy and same-sex marriage.
Liberals said that those rulings are now at risk.
In their dissent, the liberal justices wrote "no one should be confident that this majority is done with its work."
"The right Roe and Casey recognized does not stand alone," they wrote. "To the contrary, the Court has linked it for decades to other settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation. Most obviously, the right to terminate a pregnancy arose straight out of the right to purchase and use contraception. In turn, those rights led, more recently, to rights of same-sex intimacy and marriage............
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/abortion-ruling-gay-rights-contraceptives/index.html
