Same-Sex Marriage Rights Get Lawmaker Focus in Post-Roe Debate

Lawmakers clashed over the extent to which same-sex marriage and other hard-won rights are at stake following the US Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Roe v. Wade precedent legalizing abortion.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday weighed in on the concepts of due process and privacy, and whether the high court’s take last month in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization would endanger other individual freedoms.

“While Justice Alito specifically claimed that Dobbs was limited to abortion and had no effect on other fundamental rights, I find that assurance to be cold comfort,” Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) ...