{"id":52100,"date":"2022-06-27T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52100"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:00:30","slug":"why-omit-this-one-mr-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52100","title":{"rendered":"Why omit this one, Mr. Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52101\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving-1024x767.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving-768x575.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/loving.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t lost on many folks that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas omitted a legal precedent when he signaled which others might become vulnerable in future SCOTUS rulings.<\/p>\n<p>The court knocked Roe v. Wade &#8212; the landmark ruling that legalized abortion &#8212; down and out. Thomas then noted that in the future, the court could take on same-sex marriage and contraception, two other provisions protected by constitutional &#8220;rights of privacy&#8221; provisions.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; wait! What about interracial marriage?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah. Thomas, one of two blacks to serve on the court, is married to a white woman &#8230; and a controversial white woman at that! Ginni Thomas has been rabble-rousing like the dickens over Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 election as president.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s famous Loving ruling in 1967 legalized interracial marriage. It&#8217;s difficult for many of us to understand why it was ever illegal for people of different races to marry one another, but it was.<\/p>\n<p>Is that going to be part of the court&#8217;s future?<\/p>\n<p><em>Bwahahahaha!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t lost on many folks that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas omitted a legal precedent when he signaled which others might become vulnerable in future SCOTUS rulings. The court knocked Roe v. Wade &#8212; the landmark ruling that legalized abortion &#8212; down and out. Thomas then noted that in the future, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why omit this one, Mr. Justice?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122,1863,3998],"class_list":["post-52100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-abortion","tag-gay-marriage","tag-roe-v-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52102,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52100\/revisions\/52102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}