Amy Coney Barrett discusses possibility of Supreme Court overturning marriage equality
She’s part of the conservative bloc that voted to overturn abortion rights. Could marriage equality be next?
by Daniel Villarreal for LGBTQ Nation –
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett downplayed fears about the court’s 6-3 conservative majority overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, in a CBS interview that aired yesterday. The court is currently deciding whether to hear a long-shot challenge to the decision.
“You know, what the court is trying to do is see what the American people have decided,” Barrett told CBS News. “And sometimes the American people have expressed themselves in the Constitution itself, which is our fundamental law; sometimes in statutes. But the court should not be imposing its own values on the American people. That’s for the democratic process.”
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