# Substanantive Due Process: What are the fruits of this 'poisonous tree'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 25, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801 "2022-06-25T01:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Turki-lurki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turki-lurki/32/7168_2.png) [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801/1 "2022-06-25T01:55:13Z")
Clarence Thomas, legal colossus of our time, has stated that overturning Roe should just be the beginning. The right to access contraception, to marry a person of the same sex, or to generate friction between incorrect body parts with another human, all must go. But is this enough? What other offenses against the constitution must go? Inter-racial marraige? (Tough break, Ginnie.) Publishing literature that encourages or depicts any of the above? Assembly of groups that wish to oppose the will of the Supreme Court? Whose due process protections must be stamped out next? I am asking what non-obvious extremist SCOTUS opinions are likely next to be given the force of law. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801/4 "2022-06-25T04:11:29Z")
Are there any lawmakers of influence openly calling for an end to gay, or same sex, marriage? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801/5 "2022-06-25T04:20:27Z")
John Cornyn (Republican Senator from Texas) broached the subject during his questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing earlier this year. > ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801/6 "2022-06-25T05:44:10Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > {…} any lawmakers of influence {…} **Navin R. Johnson** : Ahh, anything… in this general area, right in here. Anything, below the stereo, and on this side of the Bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtray, and the thimbles. Anything in this three inches. Right in here, this area, that includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ag6DtzRUF5U/hqdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ag6DtzRUF5U/hqdefault.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substanantive-due-process-what-are-the-fruits-of-this-poisonous-tree/966801/7 "2022-06-25T08:41:01Z")
Texas has refused to repeal its laws regarding homosexuals despite them being current unconstitutional. 15 other states currently have anti-gay bills on their books. > **[Texas clings to unconstitutional, homophobic laws – and it's not alone](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/01/texas-homophobic-laws-lgbt-unconstitutional)** > > The legislature has again spurned an opportunity to end its ban on ‘homosexual conduct’ and 15 other states retain similar laws Also, this happened yesterday: > **[Chair of Texas Log Cabin Republicans group resigns after state GOP adopts new...](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3535577-chair-of-texas-log-cabin-republicans-group-resigns-after-state-gop-adopts-new-platform/)** > > The acting chair of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas (LCR) resigned Thursday just days after the new proposed Texas GOP platform defined homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice.̶…