Gigi Ravelli: Dems tell Ted Cruz to go back to to his ‘Communist’ birth place of Canada for saying Supreme Court was wrong to legalize Gay Marriage

‘Ted needs to go back to his birth place of Canada’: Democrats tear into Senator Cruz for claiming Supreme Court was wrong to legalize same-sex marriage

On his show, Verdict with Ted Cruz, the Texas senator discussed the ‘vulnerability’ of the Obergefell v Hodges decision
The ruling granted same-sex couples across the country the right to get married
Cruz, though, argued the decision should have been left to the states
His comments come just one month after the Supreme Court voted to overturn its landmark Roe v Wade decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion

Democrats are lashing out at Senator Ted Cruz after he suggested the Supreme Court should not have legalized gay marriage, which was passed under the same precedent that allowed Roe v. Wade to become law.

Jennie Lou Leeder, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Texas in 2016, 2018 and 2020, told the Texas Republican to go back to where he came from.

‘Such a disgrace to his adoptive state of Texas and our nation,’ she wrote on Twitter. ‘Ted Cruz needs to go back to his birth nation of Canada.’

Others warned that his comment was proof that Republicans are planning to come after gay marriage after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. wade last month – ending decades of precedent related to privacy from government.

‘Ted Cruz is openly signaling that Republicans plan on going after Gay marriage next,’ progressive congressional candidate for Minnesota’s 4th district Amane Badhasso tweeted on Saturday.

Cruz argued during his show Verdict that the Supreme Court should never have legalized gay marriage – branding the decision ‘clearly wrong’.

He discussed the ‘vulnerability’ of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 and claimed it ‘ignored two centuries of our nation’s history’ and called for the rights to be handed back to states rather than held at a federal level.

Badhasso demanded: ‘Protect our LGBTQ+ community. #ExpandTheCourt. Now.’

She is, advocating for so-called ‘court packing,’ which would expand the court number beyond nine.

Progressives want this option in order to use the Democratic trifecta in the House, Senate and White House to get more liberal influence on the Supreme Court bench.

Some warn against this move because the pendulum can swing the other way and the court can continue to expand in order for the party in power to have a majority in the federal judiciary.

With three Trump appointees – mainly one replacing late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – the court now sits at a 6-3 conservative majority, which allowed for the Roe overturn ending federal abortion protections… More