Lesbian Michigan AG issues bloodcurdling warning to conservative Supreme Court Justices at DNC
Michigan’s attorney general has filed a surprise challenge to Supreme Court justices who may reopen a lawsuit over gay marriage protections.
During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Dana Nessel said that anyone who would deny her the right to marry should pull her wedding ring out of “my cold, dead, homosexual hand.”
Nessel, who is openly gay, also praised the actions of Kamala Harris as California Attorney General, who refused to defend the ban on gay marriage in court.
She told the audience: ‘She refused to say that some families should have less rights than other families. It meant a lot. She fought for families like mine.’
According to The Detroit NewsNessel filed a civil lawsuit to overturn Michigan’s ban on gay marriage and is the state’s first openly gay attorney general.
During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Dana Nessel said that anyone who did that should pull her wedding ring out of “my cold, dead, homosexual hand.”
Nessel compared California’s ban on gay marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that struck down women’s constitutional protections for abortion.
She said, “After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Michigan’s antiquated abortion ban was revived, but Vice President Harris supported me.
‘She reminded me that it is our job to protect people’s lives and defend their rights.
“And just as California’s ban on gay marriage was lifted, so too was Michigan’s ban on abortion.”
Nessel and her wife, Alanna Maguire, have twins. They married in 2015 after Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage was lifted, the outlet reported.
The Supreme Court currently consists of mostly conservative justices, several of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump.
The former president nominated Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, securing a 6-3 conservative majority.
At least one conservative on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, has written about reviewing and overturning the gay marriage decision.
Nessel and her wife, Alanna Maguire, have two sons. They married in 2015 after Michigan’s gay marriage ban was lifted.
Nessel, right, embraces her wife, Alanna Maguire, at the Michigan Democrats’ election night party in Detroit on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.
In 2022, after Thomas made his thinking clear, President Biden ruled that his analysis was an “extreme and dangerous path that the court is now sending us down.”
The proposed changes, announced in a dissent from Thomas’ decision, would impose restrictions on gay marriage, same-sex sexual activity and citizens’ access to birth control.
When his opinion was published, Sarah Kate Ellis, head of the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD, called it “a loud alarm bell for the LGBTQ community.”
According to the Detroit Free PressNessel took aim at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during her speech.
According to the news agency, she said: ‘We know when [Kamala] When she takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, she has actually read it.
“Kamala knows you go from the court to the White House, not the other way around,” referring to Trump’s ongoing legal battles and his hush-money conviction.