The lawyer who helped win marriage equality says it’s safe from the Supreme Court
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Quote:LGBTQ people have worried that the Supreme Court could overturn its 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage after a leak this week revealed the Court’s plan to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision protecting the right to abortion.
However, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, one of the lawyers in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that legalized same-sex marriages, has said the large number of married same-sex couples will make the 2015 ruling difficult to overturn.
An estimated 560,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. are married, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey. Undoing all of these marriages would “make it very difficult to unwind” the 2015 court decision, the lawyer said.
“The reliance interests of already married same-sex couples are extremely powerful and would be an enormous obstacle, both practical and legal, to any attempt to undue Obergefell,” Hallward-Driemeier said.
