Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) said that he would be open to the Supreme Court overturning its 1967 ruling that legalized interracial marriage nationwide to allow states to independently decide the issue.
this year to be “judicial activism,” Braun said he thought what justices did in 1973 to pass“That issue should have never been federalized, [it was] way out of sync I think with the contour of America then,” he said. “One side of the aisle wants to homogenize [issues] federally, [and that] is not the right way to do it.”
Individual states, he said, should be able to weigh in on these issues “through their own legislation, through their own court systems.”Braun said “yes.”“I think that that’s something that if you’re not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you’re not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too,” he said. “I think that’s hypocritical.”the 1965 Supreme Court decision that a state’s ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.
As the Senate weighs Jackson’s nomination, some of Braun’s fellow Senate Republicans have questioned landmark Supreme Court decisions.calling the decision “constitutionally unsound.”Obergefell v.
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