The Supreme Court’s Next Target Is Marriage Equality. It Won’t Be the Last.

to marry across racial lines. It did not protect the right recognized inSkinner v. Oklahoma

not to be sterilized without consent. So if the majority is right in its legal analysis, all those decisions were wrong. … And if that is true, it is impossible to understand how the majority can say that its opinion today does not threaten—does not even “undermine”—any number of other constitutional rights.Don’t believe it, the dissenters warned, when Alito insists the court can “neatly extract the right to choose from the constitutional edifice without affecting any associated rights.

deprived states of the ability” to “resolve” same-sex marriage “through legislation.” Moreover, “those two justices hardly seemed content to let the matter rest: The court, they said, had ‘created a problem that only it can fix.’ ”. We also know that Thomas wants to overrule every single decision that rests on constitutional “liberty,” because he does not believe that guarantee encompasses any “substantive rights.

Dems hold both houses of congress and the White House. Why not pass a marriage equality bill?

I don’t know who needs to be told this, but the Republicans will keep pushing until either someone stops them or we’re all living in the antebellum South.

Ooh, forget rum runners during Prohibition. I can now become wealthy being a condom carrier into the US. Thanks, America, for being so dumb that I can take advantage.

Wrong. Thomas is the only justice calling for reviewing case law settled via 'Substantive Due Process'. This has been common for him in past writings, too and a matter of scholarly as well as judicial discussion and dissent among judges and judicial followers.

This court isn’t finished taking away our rights.

“Trust” the liberals on this? Not necessary—Thomas said it out loud in his concurrence!

The decision today constitutes the start of a crusade—an all-out assault on the many other rights that are “all part of the same constitutional fabric,” as the liberal justices put it.

Funny how Slate refers to the LITERAL arbiters of our Constitution as having a hit-list! Sad that people will believe the SCOTUS seeks out cases, instead of how it actually works. There is a lack of civic knowledge, and it’s pathetic

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