Senate minority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, was not willing to publicly state a position on the measure on Tuesday.
After the House passed a bill on Tuesday recognizing same-sex and interracial marriages at the federal level, the question now moves to the Senate.On Tuesday, 47 House Republicans voted with Democrats in support of the legislation, which is a direct response to growing concern over a conservative Supreme Court that appears to many as possibly poised to nullify marriage equality in the U.S."I'm looking at the bill and I probably will," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told CNN.
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that same-sex marriage cannot be banned by states. “The Supreme Court’s extremist and precedent-ignoring decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has shown us why it is critical to ensure that federal law protects those whose constitutional rights might be threatened by Republican-controlled state legislatures,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
“In Obergefell, the court said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage.' I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching,” he said on his podcast.
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