Interracial couple court cases

A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting the right of same-sex and interracial couples to marry passed the U. House of Representatives Tuesday amid concerns that the U. Supreme Court could roll back additional decisions following its overturning of the landmark abortion law Roe v. Wade last month.

On June 12, , the United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a married couple named Loving — he was white, she was black. They lived in Virginia and had violated the southern state's law against inter-racial marriage. The high court's decision made interracial marriage legal in all 50 states. Today, the Loving decision is celebrated as an important victory for multi-culturalism and democracy. VOA's Adam Phillips reports. With temperatures topping 35 degrees centigrade, it wasn't just the music that was hot at the 5th annual New York City Loving Day Celebration , one of several such events around the country.

Mildred Loving never expected her marriage would end up at the Supreme Court. A demure young woman from Caroline County, Va. Least of all did she ever imagine she would enter the history books when she married her childhood sweetheart, Richard Loving. It was

Experts fear the Supreme Court's ruling on June 24th to overturn Roe v. Wade could put the constitutional right to interracial marriage in jeopardy. When the nation's highest court nullified federal abortion rights that had been secured under Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed that the Court should also "reconsider" rulings that protect contraception access, same-sex-relationships, and same-sex marriage. In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas argued the Court should reexamine what rights are protected under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. He explicitly names the Court's landmark Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell decisions, which protect contraception access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.