MAGAt Moron Senator Says Supreme Court Should Have Never Legalized Interracial Marriage

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Mike Braun (R-Ind.) tried to walk back his comments, but his answer to a question about judicial “activism” was pretty explicit

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) went so far as to tell reporters on Tuesday that he doesn’t believe interracial marriage should be legal nationwide, before later walking back his comments, claiming he didn’t understand the question. The question, however, was pretty explicit.

“You would be okay with the Supreme Court leaving the issue of interracial marriage to the states?” Braun was asked.

“Yes,” he said. “If you are not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you are not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-braun-says-interracial-marriage-should-be-illegal-1325336/

[agingdem]

1. walk back??

he said it, he believes it, he wants it...this is who he is..an unintelligent racist/bigot/misogynist,..Braun, you pathetic excuse for a human being, your verbal poison is out there, you don't get a walk back...

[calimary]

23. "Walk back" my ass.

He only did whatever that was that you’d call it, because he got shit for his original “statement.” Yet another Great Eleventh-Century Mind of Our Time.

[Lovie777]

2. GQP agenda . . ..

anti- abortion, CRT, anti-voting rights, anti-civil rights, only one religion, anti-interracial marriage, anti-LGBT, anti-life.

[sakabatou]

3. WTAF?!

[dalton99a]

4. R stands for Racism.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Ha-ha!

... this would unite the US Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision.

[Emile]

6. There is a long history of hate and the KKK in Indiana.

[TNNurse]

7. When I hear or read "the states should decide"

I know they are saying "states rights" and I think that person would have been a slave holder and confederate soldier.

I have lived in the south all my life, I know the history. People have been talking about "states rights" for years. We all know they mean states rights to own slaves.

As much as I despise both of them, I would like to see this asshole say that to Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Thomas to their faces.

[TNNurse]

21. When you say "Southerners don't accept..."

you insult me and many others. Essentially you insulted Jimmy Carter. Some southerners is more appropriate.

When I see such comments on here, I will always speak out.

[Farmer-Rick]

15. The South was talking about State Rights back in the 1700s

And they talk a good game but were not above ignoring Northern States rights when it suited them.

"Each new territory that applied for statehood threatened to upset this balance of power. Southerners consistently argued for states rights and a weak federal government but it was not until the 1850s that they raised the issue of secession."

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/states-rights#:~:text=The%20Fugitive%20Slave%20Law%20of,over%20to%20their%20Southern%20masters.

The South is all in favor of states rights until they want to impose their racist beliefs on others. The Fugitive Slave Acts too away many of the Northern States control over escapees. But in that case funnily enough, the South did not mind the loss of State Rights.

Bunch of broken records.

[IronLionZion]

19. States' Rights and States Decide is to screw over citizens of their state

Federal supreme court cases are to strike down the screwing of citizens and protect them from states.

For the Loving vs Virginia case the senator was asked about, the Lovings were perfectly legally married in DC but kept getting arrested every time they set foot in Virginia. There were similar problems for gay couples until recently.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Braun said exactly what he meant to say and knew what it was to say it.

He is not stupid but he is profoundly racist. He is the GOP prototype: a rich, outspoken white male elitist, racist and misogynist.

[Pepsidog]

10. "I am wanting" SCOTUS to protect the rights of all Americans.

[ashredux]

11. So...what's next? Whites Only Drinking Fountains? It is just lower on his list....

[maxrandb]

12. Every Democratic Senator needs to quote Braun in questions to judge Brown-Jackson

at the hearings.

[maxrandb]

13. Wow! Adolf and Eva really did have a love child

It serves as a Senator from Indianastan

[GB_RN]

16. I Bet He Feels Dred Scott Was Correct, Too.

For those who don’t remember, it was in Dred Scott v. Sandford that the Taney-led SCOTUS ruled that The Constitutuon was not meant to apply to Black people, free or otherwise, ergo they had no rights or citizenship.

Racist fuck.

[Marthe48]

17. elected to represent the U.S.A.

This guy couldn't put a jigsaw together. He is incapable of seeing the big picture. Can any mentally competent person see what kind of problems allowing unimpeded states' rights is leading to? If we keep going backwards, we are losing the blanket protection of the law of the land. I can think of 5 interracial marriages in my family. These couples will always be welcome in my life, but if they came to visit me, and Ohio had outlawed interracial marriages, which I can totally see the diapers in our state house doing, would they have to sneak in under the cover of darkness, hide inside, and leave the same way?

States' rights advocacy is being abused, and every time a state is allowed a pass on some extreme legislation that is counter to the law of the land, we are losing more free passage between state borders. I have no desire to visit any of the states that are suppressing voter rights, suppressing civil rights, revoking women's health rights, interfering with the intimate and inviolable home and hearth of families, limiting all Americans who still believe it is possible to achieve Life Liberty and Happiness for the smug gratification of a minority of narrow-mined judgemental and flawed people who think they are American, but are not.

[Texin]

18. Did Braun completely forget about Ginni and Clarence Thomas?

[niyad]

20. No caffeine here yet. . what the f'n hell did that last quoted sentence even mean??

[twodogsbarking]

22. They are saying it out loud.

[gab13by13]

24. Hmm, should have told that to Clarence Thomas,

he's on the SC.