Conservative Party of Canada MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis slammed Quebec Liberal MP Anthony Housefather for suggesting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants to take America back to a pre-civil war era.
This comes amid mass outrage from the left across the United States and Canada over the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights case. The decision invalidated a previous constitutional right to abortion, giving American states the power to ban the practice
“The only bright side of the majority decision overruling Roe is that they seem to only want to bring the country back 50 years. Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion seems to want to bring the US back to pre Civil War times,” Housefather tweeted.
In response to Housefather’s comments, Lewis said that “when the left can’t manipulate and control black people like Justice Thomas, they adopt racist tropes and suggest that independent minded blacks want to go back to the days when slavery was legal.”
“It’s disappointing to see an MP like Anthony Housefather stoop to this level,” she added.
In Thomas’ concurring opinion in the Dobbs case, which repealed Roe, Thomas wrote that “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”
The Griswold ruling dealt with the issue of contraception, while the Lawrence and Obergefell cases addressed gay rights.
Justice Thomas, who is currently the only black judge sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, has faced several attacks from the left for his originalist conservative views.
Lewis is the only Pro-Life candidate in the Conservative leadership race. She’s promised to ban sex-selective abortions, criminalize coerced abortions, increase funding for pregnancy centres and stop the funding of abortions overseas.
