Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned Friday that her right-wing colleagues' finding that American citizens have no right to have their foreign spouses admitted to the United States will disproportionately harm same-sex couples—and could foreshadow a future reversal of federal LGBTQ + marriage equality. The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in Department of State v. Muñoz that Sandra Muñoz, a civil rights attorney and U.S.
'The right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition,' Sotomayor wrote. 'The majority today chooses a broad holding on marriage over a narrow one on procedure.' Sotomayor contended that her conservative colleagues were committing the 'same fatal error' in 'requiring too 'careful description of the asserted fundamental liberty interest'' as they did in Dobbs v.
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