When the mad dog radical right starts to bite its own tail

[DFW]

From the Huffpost:

And in a call with Indiana reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) similarly expressed support for limiting the marriage rights of certain people, saying he backed the Supreme Court overturning Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 case legalizing interracial marriage.

“So you would be OK with the Supreme Court leaving the question of interracial marriage to the states?” reporter Dan Carden of The Times of Northwest Indiana asked Braun.

“Yes,” the senator replied, later adding, “If you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings that are going to be out of synch maybe with what other states would do. That’s the beauty of the system.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus-gop-abortion-interracial-marriage-contraception_n_623b327ce4b009ab9300865a?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Email%203-24-22&utm_term=us-morning-email

I would just LOVE to hear how the Republicans think they are going to argue a state's right to re-forbid interracial marriage before their own Clarence Thomas. I wonder what beauty they think Clarence and Ginni Thomas are going to find in THAT system?

[multigraincracker]

1. It takes a lot of inbreeding to

get a pure breed.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The REPUBLICAN WAR ON NEIGHBORS expands its agenda

Abortion bounties/vote suppression/interracial marriage/LGBTQ/CRT Suppression

IT IS ALL PART AND PARCEL OF THE SAME STRATEGY

We should have a total strategy to make them turn on themselves

[JT45242]

4. Remember that Indiana religious freedom' law about gay's

Getting married. It was worded that a company could refuse service to any wedding that the business owner objected to. It was built to challenge the Loving decision.

I refuse to photograph, bake a cake, cater, etc this wedding because my religious beliefs say mixed race marriage is wrong. So making me recognize those marriages violates my freedom of religion.

Then you take it to Federalist hacks on SCOTUS who write an opinion that says Loving violates people's first amendment rights by making them recognize something outside their religious beliefs.

This has been in the works in Indiana since Mike Pence was governor.

This guy just said it out loud in mixed company.

[gab13by13]

5. Clarence Thomas doesn't give a shit,

he simply won't live in Indiana.

[Cosmocat]

6. Clarence and Ginny would LOVE it

they are already in the club and know it, and part of the increasingly unhidden craven desire for those who sign on to team con to flaunt their privilege.

[vlyons]

7. Their greatest fear

is that their children will present them with a mixed race grandchild.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Clarence would probably have himself arrested for defiling a white woman.

[DFW]

9. Maybe he would do a modern-day re-enactment of the Blazing Saddles scene

Where the black sheriff holds a gun to his head, acts like he is threatening himself, and leads himself off to jail.

[sanatanadharma]

10. The beauty of our system is not 'rights' based on zip-code.

...“If you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings that are going to be out of synch maybe with what other states would do. That’s the beauty of the system.”

The inalienable rights of citizens should not vary depending upon the new baby's address.

[DFW]

11. No kidding

"States' Rights" is just a modern expression for "The Confederacy Lives."

[AleksS]

12. Thomas would love it.

He’s got his.

Remember the defining trait of the GOP is hypocrisy.

IOKIYAR,
“I got mine, screw everyone else,”

It’s who they are.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Leaving marriage to individual states is ridiculous.

Marriage affects your status under federal laws, such as taxes and Social Security benefits.

[Wounded Bear]

14. I wonder if he consulted with Mitch before he blurted that out?

[DFW]

15. I think consulting with Mitch is fading as an imperative among Repubican Senators

At this point, the big thing seems to be who can be more outrageous than Hawley, Cruz, Blackburn and Graham--something that requires no small amount of imagination, and a VERY small amount of self-respect, which seems to a a requirement to join their caucus.

[Hekate]

16. KnR