Santorum: Supreme Court Doesn’t Have Final Say On Gay Marriage

Posted by | June 1, 2015 07:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


The right-wing continues to line up against the highest court in the land for fear it might approve gay marriage.

On Meet the Press, the 2016 Republican hopeful said that “of course” he would fight the Supreme Court if it rules to overturn state bans on same-sex marriage.

Chuck Todd asked Santorum to respond to a statement from Mike Huckabee last week, calling on states to disregard a potential ruling from Obergefell v. Hodges that would “overrule the other two branches of government.” Santorum responded that the Court was indeed equal in power to the legislative and executive branches, but made a point of how Congress and the president sometimes had to “push back” whenever the Court “gets it wrong.”

“It’s important to understand the Supreme Court does not have the final word,” Santorum said when asked about whether he would accept a ruling in favor of gay marriage. “If the court decides this case in error, I will continue to fight for this as I have for life… We’re not bound by what nine people say in perpetuity.”

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29 responses to Santorum: Supreme Court Doesn’t Have Final Say On Gay Marriage

  1. Spicerpalooza June 1st, 2015 at 07:25

    So we could have disregarded Bush’s “election” in 2000? Who knew?

    • Larry Schmitt June 1st, 2015 at 07:32

      Where are all these interpretations of how our government works coming from? No we’re not bound by Supreme Court rulings “in perpetuity,” but we are until a new law gets passed. And if that law gets challenged and is shot down by the Supremes, then we are bound by that ruling. These fools make it sound like we can just ignore any laws or legal rulings we disagree with. There’s a word for that: chaos.

      • Hirightnow June 1st, 2015 at 07:41

        Actually, it’s two words: Republican administration.

      • allison1050 June 1st, 2015 at 08:09

        Can you imagine any of this crazy sounding talk if a white man had been elected instead of our current 2 term president?

      • SkeeterVT June 1st, 2015 at 10:08

        Article VI, Section 2, United States Constitution:

        “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND [emphasis added]; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

        It is the job of the Supreme Court justices to interpret the Constitution and decide whether statutes passed by Congress or the states comport to the Constitution. If the statutes don’t comport to the Constitution, then they are struck down.

        We might not be bound by Supreme Court rulings “in perpetuity,” but we ARE bound by the Constitution.

      • fahvel June 1st, 2015 at 10:53

        your country seems to be in dire need of some real chaos. Otherwise it’s just a circus with the acrobats wearing tights with runs in them.

  2. rg9rts June 1st, 2015 at 07:26

    What a drip

  3. thinkingwomanmillstone June 1st, 2015 at 07:38

    I pledge to ignore the law as well as waste as much time as possible while president in the grand tradition of my fellow republicans fight against the ACA and their endless, unsuccessful votes to overturn it. Vote for me.

    • DogsRgoodpeople June 1st, 2015 at 09:12

      Throw in a few more Benghazi hearings and you have my vote !

  4. Um Cara June 1st, 2015 at 07:58

    Technically true, though there’s zero chance a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is going to happen.

    • Larry Schmitt June 1st, 2015 at 09:58

      And rightly so. The constitution is supposed to be about protecting our freedoms, not taking them away.

    • SkeeterVT June 1st, 2015 at 10:03

      Of course not, because the Republicans lack the two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate required for passage. Besides, they tried to pass such an amendment 10 years ago — and failed miserably.

      • Um Cara June 1st, 2015 at 11:40

        Santorum is a kook though, little things like history and reality mean nothing to him.

  5. Obewon June 1st, 2015 at 09:10

    Ricky and his delusionals ‘misunderestimated their own conservative majority SCOTUS legalizing equal marriage in 2014 by upholding the 10th and 14th Amendments nationally.
    Article 1 “Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court” https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii There goes repubs last cash cow from non billionaires..

    • Bunya June 1st, 2015 at 14:22

      OMG! I’m in the age group with the most bigots??? This is depressing!

      • Red Mann June 1st, 2015 at 16:11

        I’ve had more than one of my contemporaries call me childish for having a liberal viewpoint. I’m 69 and spent 24 years in the Navy and almost all of the people I served with are knee-jerk right wingers happily wallowing in their bigotry and ODS and thinking they are the grownups.

  6. SkeeterVT June 1st, 2015 at 09:59

    It’s Rick Santorum’s choice — as well as Mike Huckabee’s — to be on the wrong side of history on the issue of whether gay and lesbian couples who love one another have a constitutional right to marry, just as the Bull Connors and the George Wallaces were on the wrong side of history on the issue of whether interracial couples have a constitutional right to marry.

    I need to note that the opposition to interracial marriages — especially between black men and white women — was far stronger, more widespread and more vicious when the Supreme Court struck down state laws that banned such unions in 1967 (Loving v. Virginia) than the opposition to same-sex marriages is today.

    Polls taken in 1967 showed that more than 74 percent of Americans opposed interracial marriages. Black men were brutally lynched for having dared to date white women, let alone marry them.

    Nearly a half-century later, nearly 14 percent of all marriages in the United States are among interracial couples. And there are as many as 30 million mixed-race Americans alive today as a result of those marriages. Only the most blatantly racist individuals now oppose interracial unions.

    And in sharp contrast to the bitter — and often violent — opposition to what was then called “miscegenation” a half-century ago, opposition to same-sex marriage today has fallen to a minority of the American public.

    The fight over same-sex marriage is pretty much over, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, for one very important reason: Young people — who will inevitably inherit this country — overwhelmingly support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, because they grew up knowing someone who is gay or lesbian (more often than not, that someone is a member of their own family).

    There’s absolutely NOTHING that opponents can do to change young people’s minds on this issue.

  7. arc99 June 1st, 2015 at 10:00

    Well then let’s just cut to the chase.

    We get to ignore Citizens United.

    We get to ignore Wickard v Filburn where although the case did not involve marijuana, it did establish the legal precedent to allow the federal government to put people in prison for growing a plant.

    We get to ignore DC vs Heller which struck down gun control laws in Washington DC.

    But let’s not get carried away now. If anybody tries to ignore Brown v Board of Education, this black man will stand his ground and rely on 2nd amendment solutions.

    You want chaos right wingers? Bring it on!

  8. Budda June 1st, 2015 at 10:48

    Rick, you have been and still are an idiot.

    • Dwendt44 June 1st, 2015 at 13:40

      Fortunately Tricky Ricky has zero chance of sitting in the big chair.

    • Elliot J. Stamler June 2nd, 2015 at 09:53

      He is not an idiot. He is an evil fanatic and an American fascist which makes him infinitely more dangerous than if he were just a dummy. Do not underestimate the intelligence of enemies…it can be fatal.

  9. AnthonyLook June 1st, 2015 at 12:15

    Like the Constitutional right women have to “choice”; the fundamentalist fascist theocratic fake christians want to force their religious views on all other Americans and will work to wittle away the rights of the Gay population of their civil rights to marry. Not EVER gonna work.

  10. cvryder2000 June 1st, 2015 at 17:44

    Uh, yeah, Ricky….they do, on accounta cuz you ain’t gonna get an amendment passed cuz you ain’t gonna be president and you ain’t gonna get to be senator again neither.

  11. Learjet June 2nd, 2015 at 10:30

    BIGOTS gonna hate.

  12. glennst010 June 2nd, 2015 at 14:35

    I don’t fear idiots like Santorum because they are not electable to the highest office. What I fear most, however, are the people who back him and back sundry goofy Republican ideas. These people will vote for them not realizing that it will be to their own detriment only because they hate Obama and Dems in general.

  13. Progressive Republican June 3rd, 2015 at 04:57

    Oh, please. Everybody knows that the GOP loves the Constitution.

    Well, at least the word anyway.

    The actual document, not so much.

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