Shortly after the Supreme Court denied the fundamental right to abortion, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) appeared to support Judge Clarence Thomas’s agreement that the Supreme Court could reconsider other precedents that could be considered Such as those influencing the LGBTQ community. One of the cases mentioned by Thomas was Lawrence v. Texas, which prevents states from banning close relationships between people of the same sex. The 2003 landmark decision overturned a 1973 Texas law criminalizing the act of sodomy. But like Roe vs. Wade overturned, Paxton said he would defend the state of sodomy law that does not work if the Supreme Court followed Thomas’s remarks and eventually reconsider Λαυρέντιος. “I mean there are all kinds of issues here, but certainly the Supreme Court has intervened in issues that I do not think there is a constitutional provision to deal with,” Paxton said in an interview with NewsNation presenter Leland Vittert on Friday. “It was a legislative issue, and that’s one of those issues, and there could be more. So it would depend on the issue and it would depend on what the state law said then. “ Asked if the Texas Legislature would pass a similar sodomy bill and if Paxton would defend him and take him to the Supreme Court, the Republican Attorney General, who is running for re-election in November, suggested it would be inconvenient. support a law that prohibits intimacy. -sexual relations. “Yes, look, my job is to defend state law and I will continue to do so,” Paxton told Wittert. “This is my job according to the Constitution, and I am definitely willing and able to do it.” A Paxton spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Post. Attorney General’s support for a sodomy bill comes as Texas is among 13 states with “activation bans” designed to take effect once Roe abolished, which will prohibit abortion within 30 days. Prior to last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Texas had already limited abortions to the first six weeks of pregnancy, when many people do not yet realize they are pregnant. Paxton had also issued a tip that prosecutors could pursue criminal cases under a 1925 state law that was not enforced before the activation ban began. Abortions are now banned in these states. Others will follow. On Tuesday, Harris County Judge Christine Wems (D) issued a temporary restraining order to allow clinics to offer abortions for at least two weeks without prosecution. Weems decided that aRoe The ban imposed by Paxton and prosecutors “will inevitably and irreversibly freeze the provision of abortions in the vital weeks in which safer abortion care remains available and legal in Texas.” A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order on June 28 that allows some clinics to repeat abortions for up to six weeks of pregnancy. (Video: Reuters) After the cultural point of view of Friday at Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, health advocates, legal experts and Democrats are wondering if the conservative majority of the Supreme Court could overturn other rights in the coming years. Thomas set a goal Λαυρέντιος in an opinion agreed with his conservative colleagues on the overthrow of the Supreme Court Roe. Justice also mentioned Griswold v. Connecticutthe 1965 decision allowing married couples the right to purchase and use contraception without state restrictions, and Obergefell v. Hodgesthe 2015 case that legalized marriage equality. “In future cases, we will have to re-examine all the substantive precedents of the Court, including Griswold, Λαυρέντιοςand Obergefell,“, Wrote Thomas on page 119 of the opinion in Dobbs. ““Because every substantive decision in a legal proceeding is ‘proven wrong’; we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ found in these precedents.” Thomas added, “After the annulment of these proven wrongdoings, the question will remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad of rights created by the substantive cases of fair trial.” Biden, other critics fear Thomas’ “extreme” position on contraception The other five conservative judges involved in the ruling, however, have made it clear that they believe these other rights will not be compromised. The dissenting opinion “suggests that our decision calls into question Griswold, Eisenstadt, Λαυρέντιοςand Obergefel. … But we have stated it categorically [n]”Something in this opinion should be understood that raises doubts about precedents that do not concern abortions,” they wrote. Thomas’s opinion was denounced by President Biden as part of what he described as “an extreme and dangerous path that the court is now following.” On June 24, President Biden made a strong defense of abortion protection following a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. (Video: The Washington Post) As early as 1960, every state in the country had an anti-sodomy law, according to the New York Times. In Λαυρέντιος, Supreme Court rejects Texas law banning gay sex. This opinion overturned a controversial 1986 decision that had ratified an anti-sodomy law in Georgia by a 5-4 vote. This decision found that the Constitution does not protect gay sex, even in the privacy of people’s homes. Judge Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the 6 to 3 decision that homosexuals have “a right to respect for their privacy.” “The state cannot underestimate their existence or control their fate by criminalizing their private sexual behavior,” Kennedy wrote. “Their right to liberty under the Due Process clause gives them the full right to participate in their conduct without government intervention.” The most important decisions overturned by the Supreme Court In his disagreement, Judge Antonin Scalia wrote the opinion of the majority Λαυρέντιος was “the product of a culture of the legal profession, which has largely been included in the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some gay activists with the aim of eliminating the ethical abuse traditionally associated with homosexual behavior.” Republicans welcomed the Supreme Court ruling, with former Vice President Mike Pence calling for a nationwide ban on abortions. While House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) declined to say whether he would support the Supreme Court reviewing the rights in some of the cases Thomas cited, other Republicans were more vocal about their position. Utah Senate Speaker Stuart Adams (R) has said he would support the state’s constitutional ban on gay associations if the Supreme Court reconsiders marriage equality, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The LGBTQ community is preparing for the revocation of rights after the abortion decision Paxton also praised the abortion decision, saying in a press release that June 24 is now an annual holiday for the Texas Attorney General’s Office. His comments about same-sex relationships in Texas were met with criticism from critics and liberals, including Rochelle Garza, the Democratic nominee for attorney general who is running against Paxton in November. “Roe was just the first – they will not stop until all our political rights are taken away,” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. Asked again Friday whether he would support the Texas legislature to try the sodomy bill, Paxton was reluctant but said he would defend the bill if the Supreme Court reconsidered it. Λαυρέντιος. “I should take a look,” he told NewsNation. “This is all new ground for us, so I have to do it [see] how the legislature was formed and whether we thought we could defend it. In the end, if it is constitutional, we will go and defend it. “ Frederic J. Frommer contributed to this report.
