Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The Hill reports:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday warned progressives that the Supreme Court “isn’t just coming for abortion” after a leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Ocasio-Cortez later retweeted a statement from Slate reporter Mark Joseph Stern pointing to passages in the draft opinion.
“[Supreme Court Justice Samuel] Alito’s draft opinion explicitly criticizes Lawrence v. Texas (legalizing sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (legalizing same-sex marriage),” Joseph wrote. “He says that, like abortion, these decisions protect phony rights that are not ‘deeply rooted in history.’ ”
Yahoo News reports:
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on Don Lemon Tonight Monday, where he reacted to the unprecedented leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion signaling the court’s plan to overturn Roe vs. Wade, written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito. The move would do away with abortion rights at the federal level, leaving it up to the states.
“Jeffrey, you talked about Roe in the beginning and you mentioned Griswold vs. Connecticut,” Lemon said. “What other cases have been decided based on these precedents that could now be in jeopardy?” “Same sex marriage is, certainly,”
As we’ve warned, SCOTUS isn’t just coming for abortion – they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage + civil rights.
Manchin is blocking Congress codifying Roe. House has seemingly forgotten about Clarence Thomas. These 2 points must change https://t.co/5Isec0osV0
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 3, 2022
Obergefell isn’t safe. Lawrence isn’t safe. Advances in LGBTQ equality have been marked vulnerable by Alito’s own reasoning. He specifically called them out in the Roe draft opinion. They are not stopping here. All of us are bound to what happens with Roe.
— Charlotte Clymer ?️
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NEW: The draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade that just leaked also explicitly criticizes Lawrence v. Texas (which ended laws that banned gay sex) and Obergefell v. Hodges (which legalized same-sex marriage). Alito claims they are not “deeply rooted in history.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 3, 2022
The last time the Republican Party actually bothered to write a platform (2016), they were very clear about planning to get both Roe and Obergefell overturned. The idea that this was liberal fear-mongering was always undermined by literal public statements by the Republican Party pic.twitter.com/DqePDcrpoz
— Steven White (@notstevenwhite) May 3, 2022
Do not believe that Obergefell isn’t next.
Marriage equality will be sent back to the states.
And contraception.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) May 3, 2022
They’re coming for Griswold, and for Obergefell, and for Lawrence, and for Loving. https://t.co/TkOIVEcrWo
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 3, 2022
Most states are gerrymandered to the point where changing the state legislature is impossible. Those same states generally prohibit voter initiated ballot initiatives. The notion that they can be brought back at the state level is a fantasy that only SCOTUS believes.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2022