Ted Cruz

"Ted Cruz is openly signaling that Republicans plan on going after Gay marriage next," a Democratic congressional candidate tweeted.

"Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. It was the court overreaching." Amane Badhasso, a Democrat running for Congress to represent Minnesota's 4th congressional district, wrote: "Ted Cruz is openly signaling that Republicans plan on going after Gay marriage next. The GOP is not stopping at Roe, they never were." "Such a disgrace to his adoptive state of Texas and our nation. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage and others that protect same-sex relationships and access to contraceptives.

FILE - Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Supreme Court nomineeKetanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in ...

“You’ve got a ton of people who have entered into gay marriages and it would be more than a little chaotic for the court to do something that somehow disrupted those marriages that have been entered into in accordance with the law. “The way the Constitution set up for you to advance that position is to convince your fellow citizens. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states,” Cruz said.

Sen. Ted Cruz believes the US Supreme Court was "clearly wrong" in its landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, the Texas ...

'It was the court overreaching." In Obergefell, the court said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage.'" "Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.

The Texas Republican's remarks came just weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Court “should reconsider” past rulings, including Obergefell v.

It was the court overreaching." In Obergefell, the court said now we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage," Cruz continued. We saw states before Obergefell — some states were moving to allow gay marriage, other states were moving to allow civil partnerships.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz made the comments on gay marriage while discussing the possibility of its reversal.

“They were different standards that the states were adopting.” Thomas was referring to a 1965 ruling, Griswold v. Cruz’s comments followed the high court’s overturning of Roe v.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday criticized the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling that legalized gay marriage, on an episode of his own podcast, as first reported ...

Wade, it’s clear that Cruz isn’t emptily raising the specter for things he and the GOP will never follow up on. There were different standards that the states were adopting,” Cruz said, referring to the Obergefell v. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.

The Texas Republican's remarks came just weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court “should reconsider” past rulings, including Obergefell v ...

"But to be honest, I don’t think this court has any appetite for overturning any of these decisions.” It was the court overreaching.” In Obergefell, the court said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage,'” Cruz continued.

Sen. Ted Cruz, here at a May campaign event, says marriage is an issue that should be "left to the states." Dean Obeidallah ...

In response to the GOP's actions on women's rights, Democratic callers to my SiriusXM show have expressed concerns that their federal tax dollars would be sent to states that are oppressing women. -- but this time on the final line. But the truth is Braun was being intellectually consistent with this states' rights argument -- as he candidly acknowledged. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court "should reconsider But it's more akin to sovereign nations where they can act unrestrained from federal intervention on issue after issue -- from voting rights to same-sex marriage and even interracial marriage. Even before Cruz's comments, other conservative leaders have expressed a similar desire to give states the right to deprive residents of fundamental rights.

Sen. Ted Cruz believes key decisions should be left to the states and the Supreme Court was "overreaching" with its ruling on same-sex marriage.

"In Obergefell, the court said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage.'" Cruz's remarks come on the heels of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. There were different standards that the states were adopting."

The junior senator argued that the issue of gay marriage should be left to the states.

"We have a duty to 'correct the error' regarding these established in those precedents." Texas—a 2003 decision in which the court ruled against the state of Texas regarding a 1973 law criminalizing the act of sodomy. Attorney General Ken Paxton last month stated he would support the Supreme Court revisiting the cases mentioned by Thomas and defend Texas' long-unenforced law against sodomy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas seemed to confirm these intentions in a separate concurring opinion questioning a number of the high court's past rulings, some of which related to same-sex relationships. In Obergefell, the court said 'no, we know better than you guys do' and now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage. Hodges—a landmark 2015 case that extended marriage as a fundamental right to same-sex couples.

On Sunday's episode of his podcast, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S. 'was clearly wrong when it was ...

The state then asked the Supreme Court to either overturn Roe v. "The millions of loving couples who have the right to marriage equality to form their own families do not need Clarence Thomas imposing his individual twisted morality upon them," Obergefell said in his statement. Back in May, President Joe Biden warned that a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. The process of overturning Roe v. Just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz believes the court should reconsider another landmark case: Obergefell v.