Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down the fundamental right to an abortion
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) appeared to express support for Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion
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That the high court could review other precedents that may be deemed “demonstrably erroneous,” including those affecting the LGBTQ community.
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One of the cases mentioned by Thomas was Lawrence v. Texas, which prevents states from banning intimate same-sex relationships.
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The landmark 2003 ruling struck down a 1973 Texas law that criminalized the act of sodomy.
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But as Roe v. Wade was overturned, Paxton said he would defend the state’s defunct sodomy law if the Supreme Court were to follow Thomas’s remarks and eventually revisits Lawrence.
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“They were legislative issues, and this is one of those issues, and there may be more. So it would depend on the issue and dependent on what state law had said at the time.”
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When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a similar sodomy law and if Paxton would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court
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the Republican attorney general, who is running for reelection in November
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suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.