{"id":1528417,"date":"2022-06-24T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528417"},"modified":"2022-06-24T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T01:20:08","slug":"correct-the-error-clarence-thomas-says-scotus-should-reconsider-decisions-on-contraception-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/correct-the-error-clarence-thomas-says-scotus-should-reconsider-decisions-on-contraception-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Correct The Error\u2019: Clarence Thomas Says SCOTUS Should \u2018Reconsider\u2019 Decisions On Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorrect-the-error-clarence-thomas-says-scotus-should-reconsider-decisions-on-contraception-same-sex-marriage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that the high court should \u201creconsider\u201d earlier decisions finding constitutional rights to contraception and same-sex relationships through a controversial legal theory.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas ruled with the majority on Friday in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, a highly-anticipated decision that overturned the 1973 decision in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/roe-v-wade\">Roe v. Wade<\/a>, <\/em>which codified\u00a0a right to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/abortion\">abortion<\/a> in federal law. The same legal theory that supported a right to an abortion in <em>Roe<\/em> was also used in a handful of other cases to justify rights discovered through \u201csubstantive due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas wrote in a concurrence to Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s majority opinion that \u201cwe should reconsider all of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including <em>Griswold<\/em>, <em>Lawrence<\/em>, and <em>Obergefell<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a duty to \u2018correct the error\u2019 established in those precedents,\u201d he continued. \u201cAfter overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has been a longtime critic of \u201csubstantive due process,\u201d a reading of the 14th Amendment that posits that the amendment\u2019s due process clause applies to rights outside of strict legal procedures and rights not explicitly protected in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 view of the 14th Amendment is that it \u201cprotects the processes by which your rights are adjudicated, not the actual rights themselves,\u201d Jacob Meckler, a law clerk at the America First Legal Foundation, told The Daily Wire. For instance, the right to a firearm made explicit in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/second-amendment\">Second Amendment<\/a> is a substantive right, whereas the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is a procedural right.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <em>Dobbs<\/em>, however, the right to an abortion was read into the Constitution under the 14th Amendment while lacking an explicit basis using the due process clause. The due process clause states: \u201cNo State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the reasoning in the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision, the court should now revisit other cases based on the \u201csubstantive due process\u201d theory, Thomas said. Notably, the justice wrote that the other legal rights based on the theory may still be valid, though the court must look for a different textual basis for them.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas listed three such cases that he said should be reviewed. <em>Griswold v. Connecticut<\/em>, decided in 1965, enshrined a right to contraceptives. <em>Lawrence v. Texas<\/em> was decided in 2003 and read into the Constitution a right to certain private sexual conduct, namely the right to a same-sex relationship. <em>Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em> was decided less than a decade ago in 2015 and guaranteed a right for same-sex couples to marry.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in <em>Obergefell<\/em> and a candidate for the Ohio state house, responded to Thomas\u2019 concurrence in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/clarence-thomas-concurring-opinion-abortion_n_62b5c914e4b0cdccbe6aa6d2\">The Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClarence Thomas is a Supreme Court justice appointed by humans, he is not the Supreme Deity,\u201d Obergefell said. \u201cThe millions of loving couples who have the right to marriage equality to form their own families do not need Clarence Thomas imposing his individual twisted morality upon them. If you want to see an error in judgment, Clarence Thomas, look in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The majority opinion in <em>Dobbs<\/em> stresses that \u201cthis decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.\u201d Alito later states that the act of abortion is \u201cfundamentally different\u201d to other substantive due process rights \u201csuch as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the decisions in <em>Griswold<\/em>, <em>Lawrence<\/em>, and <em>Obergefell<\/em> did happen to be overturned, the issue in each would, like abortion, revert to the states for regulation. It\u2019s doubtful that such a case challenging those precedents will make it up to the Supreme Court anytime soon, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that the high court should \u201creconsider\u201d earlier decisions finding constitutional rights to contraception and same-sex relationships through a controversial legal theory. Thomas ruled with the majority on Friday in Dobbs v. 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Wade, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1528424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}