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The US Supreme Court decision to bury the right to abortion revived speculation about other social achievements, like gay marriage, taken from the plot of one of the most conservative judges.
“In future proceedings” on respect for privacy, “we should review all jurisprudence,” Judge Clarence Thomas wrote in a personal memoir accompanying the decision.
He cites three sentences: “Griswold v. Connecticut”, of 1965, which establishes the right to contraception; “Lawrence v. Texas”, of 2003, which declares unconstitutional the laws sanctioning sexual relations between persons of the same sex; and “Obergefell v. Hodges”, 2015, which it protects wedding for everyone at the level of the United States.
Then President Donald Trump with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, one of the Conservatives he appointed to the court. AP
According to Clarence Thomas, since this jurisprudence is based on the same provision of the Constitution that protected the right to abortion, the Court has “the duty to ‘correct the mistake’ “ have established. It would then be necessary to analyze whether other sections of the Constitution “guarantee the infinite rights” thus “generated”, she explained.
For now it is only the opinion of one of the nine judges who make up the temple of American law.
The profound remodeling of the Supreme Court under the presidency of Donald Trump, who appointed three new judges giving a clear majority to the Conservatives, makes Democrats, lawyers and associations that defend the rights fear that several achievements, including marriage between people of the same sex, end up on the bench.
The three progressive magistrates of the Court have dissociated themselves from the majority which, according to them“endangers other rights to privacy, such as contraception and same-sex marriages.”
Washington. AFP
Source: Clarin