{"id":1410,"date":"2022-03-23T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/republican-sen-mike-braun-says-supreme-court-should-leave-decisions-on-interracial-marriage-abortion-to-the-states-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:42:38","slug":"republican-sen-mike-braun-says-supreme-court-should-leave-decisions-on-interracial-marriage-abortion-to-the-states-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/republican-sen-mike-braun-says-supreme-court-should-leave-decisions-on-interracial-marriage-abortion-to-the-states-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court should leave decisions on interracial marriage, abortion to the states – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) said Tuesday 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.
Braun \u2014 who made the comments during a conference call in which he discussed the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court \u2014 also said he\u2019d welcome the rescinding of several key decisions made by the court in the past 70 years to pass the power to the states.
His remarks were first reported by local outlets NWI.com<\/a> and WFYI Indianapolis<\/a>.
Critical of activism from the bench, Braun cited a series of landmark decisions made by the court, including Roe v. Wade,<\/i> which legalized abortion, and Loving v. Virginia, <\/i>which legalized interracial marriage.
When asked by a reporter whether he would consider the Supreme Court potentially striking down Roe<\/i> this year to be \u201cjudicial activism,\u201d Braun said he thought what justices did in 1973 to pass Roe <\/i>was \u201cjudicial activism.\u201d
\u201cThat issue should have never been federalized, [it was] way out of sync I think with the contour of America then,\u201d he said. \u201cOne side of the aisle wants to homogenize [issues] federally, [and that] is not the right way to do it.\u201d
Individual states, he said, should be able to weigh in on these issues \u201cthrough their own legislation, through their own court systems.\u201d
The same reporter asked Braun whether he would apply the same judgment to Loving, and <\/i>Braun said \u201cyes.\u201d
\u201cI think that that\u2019s something that if you\u2019re not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you\u2019re not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s hypocritical.\u201d
The reporter asked whether Braun would say the same about Griswold v. Connecticut, <\/i>the 1965 Supreme Court decision that a state\u2019s ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.
\u201cYou can list a whole host of issues,\u201d Braun said. \u201cWhen it comes down to whatever they are, I\u2019m going to say that they\u2019re not going to all make you happy within a given state, but that we\u2019re better off having states manifest their points of view rather than homogenizing it across the country, as Roe v. Wade<\/i> did.\u201d
In a statement to The Washington Post after the conference call, Braun said he \u201cmisunderstood\u201d the reporter\u2019s questions on Loving <\/i>and stressed that he opposes racism.
\u201cI misunderstood a line of questioning that ended up being about interracial marriage,\u201d Braun said. \u201cLet me be clear on that issue \u2014 there is no question the Constitution prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race, that is not something that is even up for debate, and I condemn racism in any form, at all levels and by any states, entities, or individuals.\u201d
Braun did not comment on whether he also misunderstood the line of questioning on Roe <\/i>or Griswold.<\/i>
Braun said that while Jackson seems qualified for a seat on the court, he said he expects her not to be an \u201cactivist\u201d during her tenure.
\u201cStick with interpreting the law,\u201d Braun said, according to WFYI. \u201cDon\u2019t legislate from the bench.\u201d
As the Senate weighs Jackson\u2019s nomination, some of Braun\u2019s fellow Senate Republicans have questioned landmark Supreme Court decisions.
On Monday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), during her questioning of Jackson, said she opposes Griswold, <\/i>calling the decision \u201cconstitutionally unsound.\u201d
Similarly, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) questioned Jackson on Tuesday on the court\u2019s authority in Obergefell v. Hodges, <\/i>the 2015 decision that legalized marriage equality \u2014 which he called an \u201cedict.\u201d
\u201cWhen the Supreme Court decides that something that is not even in the Constitution is a fundamental right and no state can pass any law that conflicts with the Supreme Court\u2019s edict, particularly in an area where people have sincerely held religious beliefs, doesn\u2019t that necessarily create a conflict between what people may believe as a matter of their religious doctrine or faith and what the federal government says is the law of the land?\u201d Cornyn asked Jackson.
Jackson said that \u201cis the nature of a right.\u201d
\u201cWhen there is a right, it means that there are limitations on regulation, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs,\u201d Jackson said.
The latest: <\/b>Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> defended her record as a federal public defender and district court judge on her second day of confirmation hearings<\/a> for a seat on the Supreme Court. Follow our live coverage of Day 3.<\/a>
The votes:<\/b> The Senate led by Democrats can confirm Judge Jackson without a single Republican vote. Here\u2019s where senators stand on confirming her.<\/a>
The nominee: <\/b>The president named Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>, a judge on the D.C. federal court of appeals<\/a>, as his first Supreme nominee. She would be the first Black woman justice in the court\u2019s history<\/a>.
Analysis: <\/b>Jackson will face questions<\/a> about race, her work on Guant\u00e1namo detainee cases, her ruling against Trump and support she received from a court-packing group during this confirmation fight<\/a>.
What it means:<\/b> The Democrats have a chance to replace the oldest of three liberal justices<\/a> on the Supreme Court ahead of the 2022 midterm elections<\/a>.
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