“Alarm bells about Obergefell”: Sotomayor pens blistering dissent on SCOTUS marriage attack

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1. Fanatical Christo-Fascist homophobes ruling by hatred and superstitious credulity.

2. Might honestly be the only button Republicans and the Supreme Court could press that would rival or outdo the post-*Dobbs* outrage. Legal gay marriage polls in the damn 70s anymore.

3. This court is way past due to be replaced.

4. Kind of a garbage article. In no way does it try to elaborate why this ruling has any bearing on Obergefell. Yeah I can probably find that info myself. I’d like to see submissions here though of higher quality content.

5. They are going to go down the list Alito put out when Roe was reversed where he basically said “bring us a case and we’ll reverse it.” Obergefell, Griswold, Lawrence, Brown, others I’m forgetting, are all toast and it’s really just a function of time at this point.

6. Whomever Dems get to appoint to the SC next, I hope it’s a 45 year old “Sotomayor”. She has been fairly progressive and *very* outspoken and we need more outspoken liberals on the court. I get while Brown Jackson isn’t as vocal as she could be (she’s also fairly conservative on some issue compared to Sotomayor and even Kagan at times) but I wish she’d be more vocal about decided cases and her thinking on them. We need far more outspoken legal voices other than podcasters on the left.

7. Okay, well that clearly placed immigration above family values too for the GOP.

8. *shocked pikachu face* oh wait, we all knew this was coming….

9. They’re going after gay marriage AND interracial marriage. These are some evil pos.

10. I don’t understand why there are gay conservatives that will vote for this shit.

11. When they confirmed Amy Handmaids Tale I told my conservative BIL (his sister and I got married in 2008 when SSM was legalized) this was going to happen, as well as Roe. He said no, it won’t happen. They won’t do that. I said they’re literally fishing for cases. I said what would you say if it were to happen? He said that would be “unfortunate”.

    Unfortunate. My wife and are about to celebrate our 16th anniversary. We’ve been together 20 years. Dropping your dinner on the floor is unfortunate. Having your marriage, and all the benefits that come along with it, ripped away from you is a travesty. It’s an injustice. It’s outrageous. I’m crying just thinking about this happening.

    This man is in a giant cult religion, but had two kids 6 months apart in age. Not married to either of their mothers. Then more recently got married to a woman he knew for 30 days. But his marriage should get priority over mine. Got it.

    But I’m an asshole because I kicked him out of our home and haven’t spoken to him since.

12. >The 6-3 ruling penned by Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett in Department of State v. Muñoz held that a citizen has no “fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country,” denying a couple’s plea after a U.S. citizen’s husband was denied a visa.

    The “family values” party, ladies and gentlemen. She’s a good Christians, naturally. Matthew 19.6, anyone?

13. Abolish the Supreme Court.

14. Article 3 section 1, the portion of the constitution that sets up the Supreme Court, doesn’t say justices serve lifetime appointments. It says they “shall hold their offices during good behaviour” and that their salary can’t be decreased while they serve. Of course it follows that if judges maintain “good behavior” they can’t simply be removed from office based on a political whim or something. However, it seems to me to be about time to take the notion of “good behaviour” seriously. Corruption, lying to Congress about what is settled law, etc., seem like behavioral failures of a type we can’t afford to tolerate any longer.

15. Biden had both the senate and the house for two years. He should have increased the number of justices and put in more liberal options.

    Another option was to pass laws preserving abortion rights. The filibuster could have been removed. A whole lot of things could have been done, yet they were

    Why exactly was nothing done in those 2 years? Hint: we need to keep getting threats against democracy and our rights to keep having democrats elected.

16. The thing is they didn’t think depends boy was going to win,so they weren’t prepared to rat fuck America. This time they’re ready.

17. Solution is to legislate properly for these problems. But no one in the legislative bodies want to deal with these issues any seriousness.

    Expand the supreme Court and that is the only way to keep status quo at best else these erosions continue while we bicker.

18. This specific ruling, however, I agree with. The lady’s husband had credible ties, confirmed by our intelligence community, to MS13 in El Salvador. Allowing someone like that into the country because they are married to someone else who has gained their citizenship would be alarming in my opinion.

    I understand the overall precedent that this may create and I see why people hate it. Just, zeroing in on this specific case, he absolutely should not be allowed into the country.

19. Drastic action needs to be taken to rotate them out back to the lower courts at this point frankly.

20. Finally. I don’t envy the miserable position she is in.

    I have no patience or filter with bad people and she has to be cordial always.

21. America – Land of the Free, Home of the Brave™