Chuck Darwin

In a ruling delivered Friday, the Supreme Court decided 6–3 that 💥U.S. citizens have no constitutional interest in their noncitizen spouses being able to enter the United States💥
—despite the obvious fact that a married person has an inherent interest in their spouse being able to live in the same country as they do.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned the ruling is a clear sign 🔥the court will seek to overturn protections for marriage equality next.🔥

Sotomayor issued a dire warning in her dissent, accusing the conservative supermajority of chipping away at constitutional protections for married couples
and saying they’re making “the same fatal error” as they did in Dobbs v. Jackson, the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned federal abortion protections.

“The majority, ignoring these precedents, makes the same fatal error it made in Dobbs:
requiring too ‘careful [a] description of the asserted fundamental liberty interest,’” Sotomayor wrote.

👉 “The majority’s failure to respect the right to marriage in this country consigns U.S. citizens to rely on the fickle grace of other countries’ immigration laws to vindicate one of the ‘basic civil rights of man’ and live alongside their spouses.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/182960/supreme-court-sotomayor-non-citizens-marriage-munoz-obergefell

Sotomayor Issues Dire Warning on Supreme Court Ruling on Noncitizens

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented in the Supreme Court’s latest marriage ruling—and warned that same-sex marriage will be next on the chopping block.

The New Republic
Jun 22, 2024 at 1:52amWeb
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@cdarwin

SC underminining fundamental basic rights.

Dissenting Sotomayor.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-334_e18f.pdf

Despite the majority’s assurance two Terms ago that its eradication of the right to abortion “does not undermine . . . in any way” other en-trenched substantive due process rights such as “the right to marry,” “the right to reside with relatives,” and “the right to make decisions about the education of one’s children,” the Court fails at the first pass.