{"id":1529217,"date":"2022-06-27T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529217"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:34:29","slug":"watch-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-screams-f-clarence-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-screams-f-clarence-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Screams, \u2018F*** Clarence Thomas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwatch-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-screams-f-clarence-thomas%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=1529217&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>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D-IL), incensed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 concurring opinion in the case which overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, screamed to a crowd over the weekend, \u201cF*** Clarence Thomas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/19-1392_6j37.pdf\">concurrence,<\/a> Thomas went farther than the other conservative justices, calling for the concept of substantive due process to be thrown out and reconsidering \u201call of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including <em>Griswold<\/em>, <em>Lawrence<\/em>, and <em>Obergefell<\/em>.\u201d <em>Griswold <\/em>v. <em>Connecticut <\/em>enshrined the \u201cright to privacy,\u201d\u00a0<em>Lawrence <\/em>v. <em>Texas <\/em>ruled that people had the right to \u201cseek autonomy\u201d in their private relationships<em>, <\/em>and<em> Obergefell <\/em>v. <em>Hodges <\/em>enshrined the right to same-sex marriage<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you read Clarence Thomas\u2019 concurrence \u2026 \u00a0f*** Clarence Thomas,\u201d Lightfoot, who is a lesbian, screamed. She raged, \u00a0\u201cIf he thinks we are going to stand idly by while they take our rights \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot takes the stage and proclaims, &#8220;F*ck Clarence Thomas.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fLur8ussTi\">pic.twitter.com\/fLur8ussTi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1541290850109513730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Thomas\u2019 concurrence, he first explained the rationale for the conservative justices overturning <em>Roe <\/em>using substantive due process:<em> \u201c<\/em>The Court well explains why, under our substantive due process precedents, the purported right to abortion is not a form of \u2018liberty\u2019 protected by the Due Process Clause. Such a right is neither \u2018deeply rooted in this Nation\u2019s history and tradition nor \u2018implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then he segued to decimating the concept of substantive due process:\u00a0 \u201cAs I have previously explained, \u2018substantive due process\u2019 is an oxymoron that \u2018lack[s] any basis in the Constitution.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He quoted himself from another case, <em>McDonald <\/em>v. <em>Chicago<\/em>: \u201cThe notion that a constitutional provision that guarantees only \u2018process\u2019 before a person is deprived of life, liberty, or property could define the substance of those rights strains credulity for even the most casual user of words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted the other conservative justices\u2019 reluctance to tackle substantive due process: \u201cThe Court today declines to disturb substantive due process jurisprudence generally or the doctrine\u2019s application in other, specific contexts. Cases like <em>Griswold <\/em>v. <em>Connecticut<\/em>, (right of married persons to obtain contraceptives); <em>Lawrence <\/em>v. <em>Texas<\/em>, (right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts); and <em>Obergefell <\/em>v. <em>Hodges<\/em> (right to same-sex marriage), are not at issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he went where the other justices apparently feared to go: \u201cFor that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including <em>Griswold<\/em>, <em>Lawrence<\/em>, and <em>Obergefell<\/em>. Because any substantive due process decision is \u2018demonstrably erroneous,\u2019 we have a duty to \u2018correct the error\u2019 established in those precedents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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 he continued. \u201cFor example, we could consider whether any of the rights announced in this Court\u2019s substantive due process cases are \u2018privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States\u2019 protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 apart from being a demonstrably incorrect reading of the Due Process Clause, the \u201clegal fiction\u201d of substantive due process is \u201cparticularly dangerous.\u201d \u2026 At least three dangers favor jettisoning the doctrine entirely. First, \u201csubstantive due process exalts judges at the expense of the People from whom they derive their authority.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Second, substantive due process distorts other areas of constitutional law. For example, once this Court identifies a \u201cfundamental\u201d right for one class of individuals, it invokes the Equal Protection Clause to demand exacting scrutiny of statutes that deny the right to others. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Third, substantive due process is often wielded to \u201cdisastrous ends.\u201d \u2026 For instance, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Court invoked a species of substantive due process to announce that Congress was powerless to emancipate slaves brought into the federal territories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thomas concluded:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 in future cases, we should \u201cfollow the text of the Constitution, which sets forth certain substantive rights that cannot be taken away, and adds, beyond that, a right to due process when life, liberty, or property is to be taken away.\u201d Substantive due process conflicts with that textual command and has harmed our country in many ways. Accordingly, we should eliminate it from our jurisprudence at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D-IL), incensed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 concurring opinion in the case which overturned Roe v. Wade, screamed to a crowd over the weekend, \u201cF*** Clarence Thomas!\u201d In his concurrence, Thomas went farther than the other conservative justices, calling for the concept of substantive due process to be thrown out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1529250,"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-1529217","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\/1529217","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}