Vice President Harris, in a new interview, expressed concern that the Supreme Court and its conservative majority could “undo recognized rights” following its 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“This court has shown itself to be an activist court,” Harris told The New York Times. “I care about fundamental freedoms at all levels.“
The vice president said she did not want to bring up any specific legal precedents that the court might overturn because she did not want to appear “alarmist.”
“But this court has made it very clear that it is willing to undo recognized rights,” she told the channel.
“You could even look at Clarence Thomas saying a lot of the calm part out loud,” she said. “Just look at what he said and maybe that will give us some indication. Just look at one of the judges to see what they might do next.”
Harris has been the face of the White House’s response to the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Wade and set the stage for several GOP-led states to enact strict abortion bans.
His comments echoed President Biden’s own criticism of the Supreme Court, which in recent years overturned the precedent protecting the right to abortion and struck down affirmative action.
Thomas wrote in a separate opinion on the case that overturned Roe that the court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” including rulings affirming access to contraceptives and protecting gay marriage.
“This is not a normal court,” Biden said last year after the affirmative action ruling.
“Take a look at how he ruled on a series of issues that have sometimes been precedents for 50, 60 years. And that’s what I meant by not normal,” the president said in a subsequent interview. “In general, the vast majority of the American people do not agree with most of the decisions the court makes.”
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