Political Quotes

“The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson demonstrated not only the extremist majority of justices' disregard for constitutional precedent; it also showed their disregard for the individual liberties of the American people. As if depriving women of their constitutional right to reproductive health care weren't enough, Justice Thomas' concurring opinion specifically opened the door to the overturning of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges--and implicitly we can read this to mean Loving v. Virginia as well. These cases established constitutional protections for same-sex and interracial marriage in America. Today, 1.1 million Americans arc in same-sex marriages. Almost ten times as many are in interracial marriages. One of the very first votes I took as a young state senator in Maryland after my first election to public office was to repeal our state's vile and racist anti- miscegenation law. That was in 1967, five years after the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia. Fifty-five years have now passed since that ruling. It has been nine and seven years, respectively, since the Windsor and Obergefell rulings. Americans have become used to knowing that they have a constitutional right to equal marriage. Indeed, American women had gotten used to the security of knowing that they had a constitutional right to reproductive choice for forty-nine years until last month.…”