Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle paint with a…”

“I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle paint with a broad brush stroke the language offered by Justice Clarence Thomas, a Justice whom I consider to be a friend, a great defender of the Constitution, and a great member of the United States Supreme Court despite being pilloried by the left and laid out as something other than the great patriot that he is. In his concurrence, Justice Thomas wrote: ``After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated. For example, we could consider whether any of the rights announced in this Court's substantive due process cases are `privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States' protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.'' Now, we could have a robust debate in the Judiciary Committee about this whole issue. We didn't do that. This bill was dropped on the body yesterday afternoon, an hour and a half before Rules. I went and testified before Rules, but we had no benefit of a debate in Judiciary Committee to have a deep discussion about this issue, about the constitutional implications. Nor did we have the ability to debate the reality that the words that this codifies Obergefell and Loving are simply false. It does no such thing.…”