And if that's not enough, Mark Joseph Stern over at Slate tweeted:
Alito's draft opinion explicitly criticizes Lawrence v. Texas (legalizing sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (legalizing same-sex marriage). He says that, like abortion, these decisions protect phony rights that are not "deeply rooted in history." https://t.co/4690k0KG1F pic.twitter.com/urF7A02INU
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 3, 2022
And then this from Court House News:
Reporting from Politico said that Alito is joined in the majority by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The liberal justices are reported to be writing dissents in the case, but it is not clear how Chief Justice John Roberts will vote.
Alito goes on to say that the due process clause guarantees some rights that are not mentioned in the constitution but those rights have to be rooted in the nation’s history and tradition.
“The right to abortion does not fall within this category,” Alito wrote.
The due process clause of the 14th Amendment is the backbone of many rights established by the Supreme Court aside from abortion, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, the right to birth control in Griswold v. Connecticut and the criminalization of anti-sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas.
Stunned.
In case you don't know it by now, this is what our good friends, the morality police in the "freedom loving" GOP, are coming for:
- A woman's right to choose
- Members of the LGBTQ community's right to marry and love as they choose
- Everyone's right to birth control
Not that it was much of a surprise.
