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>Just like how, for Justice(hah) Thomas, same-sex marriage is a state's right/decision, but interracial marriage... isn't. Banning interracial marriage was dee
by Clubber 3y ago
>Just like how, for Justice(hah) Thomas, same-sex marriage is a state's right/decision, but interracial marriage... isn't.
Banning interracial marriage was deemed unconstitutional based on the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment doesn't have any text about same-sex marriage. That's why it's left up to the states. (10th amendment)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourteenth_amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourteenth_amendmen...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment
>Why do several Supreme Court Justices state that they are originalists, and the Constitution is sacrosanct, when the very people who wrote it said that it wasn't, and was to be "reviewed and updated to the needs of the times as a living document"?
The constitution has methods to amend it, that's what a living document means, not that some political party gets to decide what it means on a whim.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> The constitution has methods to amend it, that's what a living document means, not that some political party gets to decide what it means on a whim. What does it have to say about the Supreme Court legislating from the bench?