Thread by @ThinkJoMice

Could Clarence Thomas want to dump his embarrassment of a wife Ginni by taking the long route to overturn Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 case that struck down Virginia's criminal statute against interracial marriage?

In his concurring opinion

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in Dobbs Thomas wrote:

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell”

Griswold - contraceptives
Lawrence - consensual sex
Obergefell - same-sex marriage

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But Thomas goes further and states: "Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” (Citing Himself as Authority) we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents" (Again Citing Himself as Authority)

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Thomas continues: "After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions [...] we could consider whether any of the rights announced in this Court’s substantive due process cases are “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”

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Whether Thomas wants to allow states to criminalize interracial marriage or not, certainly the current SCOTUS is on a path to divide American society by removing Constitutionally protected liberties affecting the most intimate aspects of human life

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The beauty of the Roe framework allowing the states to regulate abortion based on viability measured in trimesters provided predictability to every citizen across the UNITED STATES, no state could ban abortion in the first trimester, and every

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citizen of every state whether they chose to take advantage of the predictability of their rights from one state to the next KNEW they held that right protected by law

This GQP activist packed SCOTUS has created a nation of conflicting law, social

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unrest, and placed all Substantive Due Process rights in the crosshairs

Most are not as well known as abortion but they protect against undue government intrusion into personal, daily life, and lifestyle like marriage, contraception, right to die,

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and the right to travel to other states to seek employment

This GQP SCOTUS' recent decisions disregarded history when inconvenient and revealed their intent to provide a tortured justification to support a predetermined result, everything a judge

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is sworn NOT to do

Thomas' invitation to religious right-controlled states to bring cases that attack other Substantive Due Process rights indicates his desire to further terrorize and divide this nation with social unrest

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