At a certain point it is just willful ignorance to not learn what it is the most evil chunks of our country wants to do and why. ——— Just rolling out of bed, anyway. Yes on second look this is old. I don’t think that takes away from my doomsaying ‘that’s the direction they’re going’, first abortion then the gays then racial hierarchy. These are the traditional values of America that we have stripped away.
Anywhoo here’s an article about it and Il make a follow up post https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/23/how-indiana-reacted-mike-brauns-comments-interracial-marriage/7138541001/
Authoritarian hierarchy doesn’t preserve itself.
but but but I was told it was the natural order!
This motherfucker is going to be my state’s governor next year, barring anything unprecedented.
Yeah, I don’t see McCormick coming close. I’ve heard it’s tightening, but I’m not sure Indiana going blue for governor will happen in my lifetime 😐
We had Evan Bayh when I was a kid. Maybe again one day…
This is absolutely where they are going with this. In case nobody knows, this is the line of cases That decided issues of interracial sex in marriage, sodomy, pornography, abortion, and eventually the right to homosexual marriage.
Obviously, although it need not be said in the document itself because it’s so fucking obvious, it’s inconceivable to any rational person that a constitution which restricts the state from warrantless searches and seizures and be secure in our papers and affects, forbids quartering troops in our homes, protects our right to say what we think, and somehow it is allowed to make your family planning and sexual intimacy decisions. The Supreme Court decided all these things based on this concept, which is called Penumbral Reasoning, for those rights that arise not from the Constitution itself, but which is protected as falling within its penumbra.
And guess what, there are conservative judges that are already clamoring that the Fourth Amendment only protects your property, meaning that if you rent your home or have a mortgage on it, or a lease on your automobile, you don’t have Fourth Amendment rights. They’re coming for them all.
If Republicans win too many election, everything up to and including the second coming of slavery is on the table. That is not hyperbole.
We already have slavery. It was never truly banned, just added the need to have been convicted of a crime. Ever wonder why the US has the world’s largest prisoner population (not just per capita) and why African Americans are disproportionately brought to trial and receive more severe sentences (especially in former CSA states)? Slavery is the reason.
Overt Slavery was replaced with Jim Crow, which was replaced with great difficulty with a combination of encouraged undocumented immigration exploited labor, where they get punished for doing it but the employer never gets punished for leveraging it, combined with an expansion of the prison population to the largest coerced labor pool on Earth, and not just per capita, because we’ve made prisoners profitable.
America was built by and runs on the backs of a designated underclass by design. We have never been without a massive, policy defined underclass.
Shining city on the hill my ass. We have never not been a garbage society that revels in its own avarice and entitlement.
It’s interesting how the only “states’ rights” conservatives care about are the ones involving denying rights to the people.
Unless their definition of “people” is somehow more exclusive.
I’ll do you one better! The interracial marriage ruling should be left to the individual!
Rah rah personal freedoms!
Everybody who votes for them knows exactly what they stand for. They vote for them because of the fascism, not despite it.
“Braun” is the color of his Nazi uniform.
And Hitler’s lady friend, too.
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He was also born in Braunau am Inn in Austria and got his German citizenship in Braunschweig.
There were a couple of other Brauns popping up all over his history, like Wernher von Braun. Funny little coincidences
You wanna know the worst part? In the Senate race that got him elected this time, he was CLEARLY the best Republican candidate. Imagine if Todd Fucking Rokita had won. Actually, it is almost as bad having him as state AG.
Honestly, Rokita would have done less damage in congress.
Indiana never misses a chance to be a national embarrassment
JFC 😬
He’s likely to be governor, unfortunately
How did interracial marriage come to the supreme court anyway? States made laws against it?
Yep, lots of them.
Seems like pretty textbook usage of the supreme court judicial review process, not sure how he’s trying to argue that.
Only 2 years late on that article
Yeah, once it’s been a while since he first said it, it’s not fair or relevant to hold him accountable for believing this sort of thing. That’s why successful politicians always make sure to get all their racist bullshit on the record as early as possible, so that it doesn’t come up when it matters later.
Has he changed his position?
Changed it almost immediately, in fact.
The Dobbs decision still leaves the door open for this, as well as other horrible things.
The Gish Gallop* has gone from being a debating tactic to the entirety of the GOP platform.
*The Gish Gallop means that you throw out so many lies, half-truths and bizarre asides that your debate opponent spends all their time trying to get back to the issue at hand.
After reading the article, it seems like he’s a moron for answering a question that he didn’t understand. It reads like he didn’t know what subject Loving referred to. Maybe I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt because I’m in an interracial marriage and don’t want to believe that we are at a point where representatives actually think they can advocate getting rid of federal protection for interracial marriage but I don’t actually believe that this idiot knew what question he was answering.
Stick your head in the sand more
