wade, or the right of same-sex couples to equal treatment, as established in lawrence v. texas and obergefell v. hodges. justice brandeis called this right to privacy, quote, the right to be left alone. and it is a core constitutional principle that chief justice roberts endorsed as well. if judge gorsuch does not believe in this fundamental right or equal protection under the rule of law, the american people deserve to know it. unfortunately, his continued evasion of my questions and others tell a different story, and i am left with the inescapable conclusion that judge gorsuch passed the trump litmus test and automatically anti-choice progun conservative and an acolyte of the hard-right special interests who screened and selected his name. but i am equally and maybe more concerned by judge gorsuch's approach to cases dealing with worker safety and consumer rights, issues relating to clean air and water, the fundamental role of the public sector in protecting individuals and putting their rights above corporate interests. here, too, the important concerns that my colleagues an

wainwright and lawrence v. texas and new york times v. sullivan if they're not bill of rights cases? what cases are they? they're 14th amendment cases. no state or localities which are part of the localities. that's the second founding, a second bill of rights, the one that actually is more intuitive for most americans today because states misbehave because madison lost when he tried to get that original 14th amendment passed saying in state shall violate fundamental rights, but the senate didn't go along, so he lost that fight, but he wins in the end thanks to the. 14th amendment. and, you know, it's utterly apt that we give madison the credit for the final 14th amendment, but it's also a little bit ironic because all of this is precipitated, this 14th amendment, by the abuse of power and, alas, madison and jefferson were charter members of that slaveocracy. they founded a political party whose base was basically a southern base that benefited hugely in the electoral college and elsewhere from the presence of a slavery. because of the th