Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) on SCOTUS revisiting interracial marriage

[In It to Win It]

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[madaboutharry]

1. Good god, they really are monsters.

This “States Rights” bullshit is gross.

[Zeitghost]

2. I don't see

any state passing a law that would be needed to bring a case before the court.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Clarence and Ginni Thomas, they be coming for ya

I knew it wouldn't take long to push interracial marriage to attack.

I can't wait for C&G's response!

[leftieNanner]

8. He would probably vote to uphold a law like that.

Geez.

[Probatim]

19. He knows she's nuts - he's probably happier than shit to see that.

[Rebl2]

23. Probably

[Jaydog]

4. Moron

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Scumbags, and this is only the beginning...red states will do HORRIBLE things

And if they get control again of the WH they will pass national laws enforcing their fascism and racism.

[walkingman]

6. I used to think Texas was becoming the new Mississippi but hell it is now

half the country. Disgusting.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Now he is trying to walk it back saying he misunderstood the question... How did you understand it?

Now he is trying to walk it back saying he misunderstood the question... How did you understand it?
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Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[leftieNanner]

9. This BS is on page one

the apology will be one column inch on the back page.

[msongs]

10. so will dems effectively use this against all republicans? hmmm nt

[raccoon]

11. Sounds like Nazi Germany. Nt

[Skittles]

12. HOW is interracial marriage an "issue"

WTF IT'S LIKE WE ARE GOING BACK IN TIME

[pazzyanne]

16. Bingo! nt

[Hekate]

18. Well, it's just part of the whole panoply of laws that allow us to regulate our own behavior...

..under the guise of privacy. Interracial marriage, gay marriage, gays in the military, being trans, supporting your trans child, contraception by various means, and abortion. And let’s not forget IVF. If a fertilized egg is sacred and its death is a crime, well it follows that the unsuccessful implantation of a fertilized egg is an act of murder, as is disposing of the leftover eggs.

What we are facing in 2022 is a SCOTUS majority that by starting with abortion will ultimately knock down the legal underpinnings of all these other rights and freedoms.

Several weeks ago I saw Jonathon Capehart’s comments on Alito’s draft. He thought it was only about women until a friend detailed the above to him. Suddenly, he said, he was terrified for himself and his family, his husband and their baby.

[Recursion]

29. 20% of the country still disapproves of it. And that 20% isn't just white people.

Remember Bob Jones University and their ban on interracial dating? That came from the college giving in to the demands of some wealthy East Asian parents (the faculty had never cared before that). It was only in the 1990s that even a majority of the country approved of interracial marriage.

[lastlib]

13. Knuckle-dragging troglodytes......

We have got to throw them out on their asses. This one in particular, I would like to see his dim consciousness obliterated.

This guy is living proof that some of the monkeys came out of the trees on their heads.

[ashredux]

15. Super stupid...

[spanone]

17. The racists are everywhere.

[Devilsun]

20. This is pure insanity 😳

[Wounded Bear]

21. Once you toss one precedent, all the others are in jeopardy...nt

[sinkingfeeling]

22. I think these GQPers just want to dismantle the federal government and form their own

empires in each of the states.

[DBoon]

24. they may not revive classic segregation era bans on interracial marriage

but I bet they'd find other ways to restrict marriage

Require proof of citizenship?

Throw in some implicit religious conditions (not obvious enough to trigger 1st amendment concerns)?

Automatically dissolve a marriage if there are no children produced after a certain number of years?

[Demsrule86]

25. Some states would ban interracial marriage...not a doubt in my mind.

[DET]

26. Absolutely

These are the same states that will require an ectopic pregnancy to continue until the mother dies. There is nothing these people won’t do if they can get away with it.

[DFW]

27. The extremist right would have had a field day with my wedding

I was in a double wedding with my brother near Washington, DC.

Of the four of us, there were citizens of three different countries and two different races represented, and the reception resembled the UN general assembly. Today’s Republicans probably would have picketed the event with gun-carrying protesters screaming about God’s plan. Among us were a retired Catholic, a Shinto Buddhist and two atheists. The shouting would have been met with benign neglect.

[Hamlette]

28. The Lovings did not marry in Virginia but in DC, were sentenced to 1 year in jail in VA.

If Loving goes, what happens to abortions? VA was refusing to recognize another jurisdictions lawful marriage. In many ways, that is why/how gay marriage was legalized. Once Hawaii legalized it, did all other state have to recognize a marriage from Hawaii? It's the "full faith and credit clause" of the constitution. Each state has to give full faith and credits to acts of another state.

From a legal standpoint, this is a real stumbling block for "hard" cases like this. The Supreme Court had to rule on that constitution provision in both Loving and Obergefell. And it will happen with abortion too.

He didn't misunderstand the question, someone just reminded him of the facts in Loving. If you follow states' rights thinking, how do you allow one state to jail a couple that was legally married in another state (jurisdiction)?