Biden mocks Clarence Thomas over undisclosed luxury trips, says Supreme Court justice ‘likes to spend a lot of time on yachts’
By Social Links for Josh Christenson
Published March 4, 2024, 4:51 p.m. ET
President Biden derided Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to disclose trips he took with a Republican donor, referring to the high court’s longest-serving current justice as “the guy who likes to spend a lot of time on yachts” in an interview published Monday.
Biden, 81, made the cutting comment to The New Yorker while discussing whether the high court’s conservative majority would revisit other precedents after overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that granted constitutional protections for abortion, in June 2022.
In a concurring opinion on the ruling, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Thomas suggested the justices should revisit other precedents legalizing contraception and same-sex marriage, as well as decriminalizing homosexuality.
All those decisions were based on the legal theory of “substantive due process,” which states that rights not specified in the Constitution are protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments.
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