GOP senator: Court rulings 'darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history'
Republican presidential candidate and Senator Ted Cruz says US Supreme Court decisions approving ObamaCare and legalizing same-sex marriages across the country have brought “the darkest 24 hours” in America’s history.
“Today is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” he said during a radio interview on Friday.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled for a second time to uphold the controversial healthcare law, known as the Affordable Care Act. And, on Friday, the top court made same-sex marriage legal all across the US.
“Yesterday and today were both naked and shameless judicial activism,” Cruz said.
“Six justices joined the Obama administration, you now have Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, and six justices responsible for forcing failed disaster of a law on millions of Americans, and simply rewriting the law in a way that is fundamentally contrary to their judicial oath,” he stated.
“Today, this radical decision purporting to down the marriage laws of every state. It has no connection to the United States Constitution,” he added.
“They are simply making it up. It is lawless, and in doing so, they have undermined the fundamental legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court,” he continued.
For months, Cruz has warned against this ruling and filed a petition for a constitutional amendment in April, defining marriage as heterosexual.
Five of the nine court justices ruled on Friday that the right to marriage equality was enshrined under the 14th amendment, striking down bans in over a dozen states.
The ruling means the number of states where same-sex marriage is legal will jump from 37 states to all 50.
Critics have repeatedly said that the same-sex marriage will lead to the disintegration of family institution and sanctity of marriage.
They say the same-sex marriage is against the nature of human beings and all divine religions define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
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