Mayor Lori Lightfoot mentioned Tuesday she is making ready for the “ultimate conclusion” of Senate affirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, however all for the way forward for homosexual marriage when Barrett takes her seat at the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I deeply worry about this woman’s stated views. She’s on the record on a number of different things, not the least of which is thinking that gay marriage is something that shouldn’t be countenanced. And she’s got soulmates in Justice Thomas and others, who think that the decision by the Supreme Court … should somehow be rolled back,” Lightfoot mentioned.
“What should I tell my daughter — that somehow now my wife and I are no longer married That we’re no longer legitimately recognized in the eyes of the law? That is dangerous, dangerous territory. And what about a woman’s right to choose? We’re gonna keep re-litigating this issue and we’re gonna make abortion illegal, as Amy Coney Barrett thinks it should be?”
Lightfoot aired her issues when requested whether or not or now not she is an “originalist.” That’s how Coney Barrett describes her judicial philosophy and the way her mentor, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, described his.
Originalists firmly consider all statements within the U.S. Constitution should be strictly interpreted in accordance with the unique working out on the time the Constitution was once followed.
They don’t consider in the idea that of a “Living Constitution” that may be interpreted within the context of present instances.
“You ask a gay, black woman if she is an originalist? No ma’am, I am not,” Lightfoot mentioned with a snicker.
“That the Constitution didn’t consider me a person in any way, shape or form because I’m a woman, because I’m black, because I’m gay? I am not an originalist. I believe in the Constitution. I believe that it is a document that the founders intended to evolve. What they did was set the framework for how our country was gonna be different from any other. But, originalists say that, ‘Let’s go back to 1776 and whatever was there in the original language, that’s it.’ That language excluded, now, over 50% of the country. So, no I’m not an originalist.”