In his Friday concurring opinion with the majority decision to overturn abortion rights, Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court 'should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.' The justice contended that those precedents were 'demonstrably erroneous.' Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, dissented in both the 20 Supreme Court decisions. Obergefell legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in a 5 to 4 decision.
That decision came down in a 6 to 3 ruling. Lawrence established that criminal penalties for sodomy or private sexual acts between consenting adults are unconstitutional. Texas and its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Bush, took aim at the Court's 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. The conservative justice, who was appointed by former Republican President George H.W.
Thomas issued a concurring opinion with the Supreme Court's 6 to 3 decision overturning abortion rights as established by Roe v. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a Friday opinion that the nation's top judicial body should overrule a previous decision legalizing LGBTQ marriage nationwide and a former ruling that determined criminalizing sodomy is unconstitutional.
