always a mistake.

From the horse's mouth (Sen. Mike Braun)

The U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage, Indiana Sen. Mike Braun, a Republican, argued on Tuesday.

Suggesting the historic Loving v. Virginia ruling by the Supreme Court decades ago was a case of improper judicial activism, Braun said the court should have left that decision to the individual states, including those which had already outlawed interracial marriage.

"When you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings, they're going to be out of sync with maybe what other states would do," Braun told reporters. "It's the beauty of the system, and that's where the differences among points of view in our 50 states ought to express themselves." (In short, racism is OK state to state)

"She seems well-qualified. But whenever I vote for a Supreme Court justice it's going to be, basically, how are you going to interpret the law," Braun said. "If your record shows that you're going to be kind of an activist there, I don't think that's good, and I don't think the Founders intended it that way."

He continued: "Stick with interpreting the law. Don't legislate from the bench." (Throw out Election reform, throw out any gun control laws, throw out the right to Abortion, throw out the right to birth control, throw out interracial marriage, throw out gay marriage, throw out gay rights; Those are not Judicial Activism.

Braun then disapprovingly pointed to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. Pressed by a reporter on if he similarly disapproved of the decision to federally legalize interracial marriage, Braun said he did.

"If you're not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you're not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too," Braun said. "I think that's hypocritical."

Braun went on to tell a Times of Northwest Indiana reporter that he is also open to the Supreme Court rescinding its 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut ruling establishing a right to privacy on contraceptive use.

"You can list a whole host of issues," Braun said. "When it comes down to whatever they are, I'm going to say they're not going to all make you happy within a given state. But we're better off having states manifest their points of view, rather than homogenizing it across the country as Roe v. Wade did."

Later asked to comment on his comments, Braun said (despite his comments) he was not a racist.

Fascist show themselves as fascists when they speak. Better to keep the horse's mouth shut.
[Post edited by Lazarus at 03/23/2022 10:21AM]