Leonard said that if Alito applies his opinion elsewhere it is “going to endanger a lot of potential new areas” such as transgender rights.Īround half of US states have laws prohibiting gay marriage. “I don’t believe him,” said Leonard, adding there would be a “temptation” among the conservative justices to use their 6-3 majority to undo rights that have long vexed the religious right in America. “If anything like Alito’s opinion turns out to be the final opinion of the court, it does open the door for people who want to attack same-sex marriage or gay sex in new cases,” Arthur Leonard, an expert on equality law at New York Law School, told AFP.ĪLSO READ: Wirecard investors may have to repay dividends: German court ‘Emboldened’ conservativesĪlito, 72, stressed that he was talking about “the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” but that doesn’t reassure legal experts like Leonard.
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