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Radical Leftist Mayor Shouts ‘F–k Clarence Thomas’ at Pride Event

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a profane speech at the city’s yearly Pride event over the weekend, in which she took aim at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Speaking with the crowd on Saturday, Lightfoot snapped about the Supreme Court’s judgment to reverse Roe v. Wade and hand choices relating to abortion laws back to the states.

“We know what happened yesterday,” Lightfoot said. “F–k Clarence Thomas!”

The crowd appeared in cheers following her declaration.

Lightfoot, the city’s very first openly gay mayor, continued, “he thinks that we are going to stand idly by while they take our rights, our right to marry, our right to have children.”

In his concurring opinion, Justice Thomas composed that Supreme Court choices that depend on “substantive due process” should be reconsidered, including “Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”

The justice wrote that “because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.” He acknowledged that the cases he offered as examples “are not at issue” in the Roe judgment.

Lightfoot likewise spoke at Planned Parenthood Illinois’ workplaces in the hours after the Supreme Court’s judgment was revealed on June 24.

The mayor mentioned how she stayed as annoyed that day as she did when the draft viewpoint asserted and dripped that Chicago will stay a safe house for individuals to come from out of state to get the treatment.

“I’m not going to tell you that today feels any less than what it felt then, but the thing I think that time and distance has given us is resolve,” Lightfoot said. “We’re here not only to voice our opposition in our outrage to the Supreme Court’s decision but to reassure our brothers and sisters all across the country that Chicago and Illinois will remain a safe haven for all who value justice in our country.”

Lightfoot scolded individuals for choosing Donald Trump in 2016, blaming that election for the conservative justices being selected to the court.

“However you feel today, don’t feel resigned. Feel resolved. Feel resolved to fight and to organize and importantly to vote,” Lightfoot said. “If Hillary Clinton had been the president, we wouldn’t be sitting here having this horrible outcome in our country. If we had stood up and voted in the 2016 election, the horror of Donald Trump that we are still living through would not be something that we have to experience.”

In May, after Thomas’ draft viewpoint on Roe dripped to the media, Lightfoot provided a “call to arms” on Twitter.

“To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next,” she said. “This moment has to be a call to arms.”

“We will not surrender our rights without a fight—a fight to victory!” Lightfoot added.

H/T Timcast

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