John Cornyn: “as the Senate knows, this week, we will be voting on a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act. Tonight, we will vote…”

“as the Senate knows, this week, we will be voting on a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act. Tonight, we will vote on a procedural matter to move that legislation along. Supporters of this legislation have framed it as a way to protect the rights of same-sex couples to get married in any State in America. To be clear, that is already the law of the land. It has been so since 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Obergefell case, and there is no reason to believe that this decision is in any imminent jeopardy. Some colleagues have tried to claim that because of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs case, which overruled Roe v. Wade, that somehow that has opened the floodgates of the Supreme Court to overrule all of the precedent that it disagrees with. Well, the Justices, in their concurring opinions in Dobbs, made clear that is not true. For example, they mentioned landmark precedents like Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, and, notably, Obergefell v. Hodges. One Justice wrote: I emphasize what the Court today states: Overruling Roe does not mean the overruling of those precedents, and does not threaten or cast doubt on those precedents. I don't know what more the Supreme Court can say to indicate that Obergefell is not threatened by this Court anytime soon.…”