Left-wing radicals are having a full-scale meltdown.
They are simply not accustomed to losing political battles.
Now, MSNBC has accused Clarence Thomas of something too ridiculous to believe.
Democrats are still licking their wounds after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The abortion question will now return to the states, as it was before seven left-wing justices created a supposed “Constitutional right to abortion” out of thin air in 1973.
Hysterical leftists act as if the Court just banned abortion nationwide, which they did not.
The Supreme Court’s job is to interpret the law, and they did so correctly in the Dobbs decision.
And a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas has left-wing radicals hopping mad all over again.
Justice Thomas wrote that Supreme Court cases involving gay marriage, gay sex, and contraception were also on faulty legal ground.
First, Thomas is correct on legal grounds; there are many dead letters that should be struck down on the state level, not with an overbroad Supreme Court ruling that sets bad legal precedent.
Second, Thomas is not endorsing prohibition, and no other Justice would even dare to make the brave legal argument Justice Thomas did in his concurrence.
And that’s why the Democrat Media Complex is out for Thomas’s blood.
“Justice Thomas writes in the same concurrence that he wants to go back to a time where you could jail people based on the intercourse they had…” MSNBC’s Ari Melber said on Morning Joe. “You could jail, in a case that he picks, people that happen to have same-sex intercourse and put them in jail for that. He’s not joking. This is not a drill.”
Melber and other leftists simply do not understand how the Constitution works – they only care about the result.
For decades, they depended on five left-wing justices to serve as a super-legislature of sorts for the entire country.
Justice Thomas does not want to throw consenting adults in jail for being gay, something that hasn’t happened in decades, well before Lawrence v. Kansas.
The states have abdicated their responsibility to the Supreme Court.
“And the Court has just proven that in contrast to most of modern history, with some rare exceptions, they’re changing the standard for overturning precedent, stare decisis, to simply, when they get enough Justices on the Court — it is not like they waited, the Trump era feels recent, this was the first big abortion case since they’ve had three Trump justices, and they are shredding what were rights until last week, and perhaps the Court’s legitimacy along the way,” Melber concluded.
Justice Thomas is a constitutionalist.
He does not believe that bad case law should stand.
Thomas praised Justice John Marshall Harlan for being the lone dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, which enshrined segregation as law.
According to Melber, that ruling should have never been weakened to the point of being de facto overruled because it was established precedent.
Democrats have grown accustomed to left-wing activist Justices controlling the Supreme Court, and now they don’t know what to do.
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