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Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on June 26, 2022, 08:32:10 PM

Interracial marriage is protected by the 14th and 15th amendments.

The 15th Amendment says nothing about marriage, and the 14th Amendment protects it in the exact same way it protected abortion. If your argument is that Roe should be thrown out on these grounds, then you are also arguing that Loving should be thrown out on the exact same grounds. Anything else is hypocrisy.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on June 26, 2022, 08:32:10 PM

Further, courts, including the Supreme Court, only rule on actual controversies, and I am unaware of any serious attempts to make either contraception, nor interracial marriage illegal.

Yet. But Thomas was already explicitly clear in his statement that he has his eyes on Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell next.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on June 26, 2022, 08:32:10 PM

I am not aware of any arguments saying that Roe was correctly decided, the arguments that I have heard have been that the ability of states to regulate abortions is a bad thing.

So every ruling by multiple different Supreme Courts made up of many different justices which confirmed Roe or based other rulings on Roe were all wrong? But now that this religiously driven and non-impartial court have decided to overturn it, they are ones who got it right? Confirmation bias much?

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on June 26, 2022, 08:32:10 PM

The Supreme Court ruled that states cannot discriminate against religious schools when funding schools.

Let's have the Satanic Temple open a school there and see just how quickly they get discriminated against. Roll Eyes

While many of us interpret the Constitution and early laws to mean this or that, nobody really knows what was meant until he digs into the understanding of the definitions of the words used. And he has to understand them according to the way the words were used at the time of their writing.

For example, freedom of religion didn't mean freedom to have a Satan religion... back at the time the Bill of Rights was written. When judges make a legal decision, and someone doesn't like it, he needs to hold the judges accountable to the "statements of fact, and conclusions of law" whereby the judges made their decision. Judges can't simply make decisions up out of the air, like a king might in his kingdom.

However, anybody can do anything he wants and get away with it, if he is not held accountable by other people. Judges can be sued successfully, if done the right way.

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