Connecticut
Gay Connecticut Supreme Court justice calls out U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on same-sex marriage ruling repeal idea
(L-R) Affiliate Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas and his spouse and conservative activist Virginia Thomas arrive on the Heritage Basis on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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A homosexual Connecticut Supreme Court docket justice advised that U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas was being hypocritical in calling for reconsideration of rulings making certain authorized rights for homosexual folks — whereas not calling for the repeal of an identical ruling that permits Thomas to be married to a white girl.
Andrew McDonald, a senior affiliate justice on Connecticut’s excessive courtroom, took a shot at Thomas in a Fb submit after the U.S. Supreme Court docket justice leveraged a ruling that repealed the constitutional proper to abortion to publicly name for the highest U.S. courtroom to doubtlessly reverse rulings that bar states from outlawing homosexual intercourse and homosexual marriage.
“Mr. Justice Thomas had a lot to say at this time about my loving marriage. Oddly he did not have a lot to say about his ‘Loving’ marriage,” wrote McDonald, who married his husband Charles in 2009 when McDonald was serving within the state legislature.
“Loving” is a reference to “Loving v. Virginia,” the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling that overturned a Virginia legislation barring interracial marriages. It successfully invalidated different such bans nationally.
Thomas, who’s Black, lives together with his white spouse Virginia “Ginni” Thomas in Virginia — a mirror picture of the white husband and Black spouse who have been the plaintiffs in “Loving.”
Andrew J. McDonald, proper, with husband, Charles Grey, left.
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The couple within the case, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, had been convicted of violating Virginia’s legislation and sentenced to a 12 months in jail. The sentence was suspended after they agreed to depart the state and never return for 25 years.
McDonald’s wedding ceremony ceremony was performed by then-Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy. As Connecticut governor 4 years later, he efficiently nominated McDonald to develop into the second brazenly homosexual man to serve on an American state’s Supreme Court docket.
McDonald married his husband six years earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket within the ruling Obergefell v. Hodges barred states from outlawing same-sex marriages.
On this Feb. 26, 2018 photograph, Connecticut Supreme Court docket Justice Andrew McDonald, nominee for chief justice, speaks earlier than the state judiciary Committee in Hartford, Conn.
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Thomas, in his concurring opinion Friday on the choice to overturn the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, recognized three previous rulings that he referred to as “demonstrably incorrect choices”: the Supreme Court docket’s ruling in Obergefell, a 2003 excessive courtroom case that established the best to have homosexual intercourse, and a 1965 case establishing married {couples}’ proper to contraception.
However Thomas didn’t point out a fourth Supreme Court docket resolution which relies on related authorized grounds to the opposite three: “Loving v. Virginia.”
“Loving” was determined partially by the Supreme Court docket on the grounds that Virginia’s legislation violated the Due Course of Clause of the Structure’s 14th Modification. That clause ensures that no state shall “deprive any particular person of life, liberty, or property with out due technique of legislation.”
So have been the three different Supreme Court docket choices that Thomas referred to as out in his concurring opinion.
In that, Thomas wrote, “As a result of any substantive due course of resolution is ‘demonstrably faulty’ … we’ve got an obligation to ‘right the error’ established in these precedents.’”
McDonald declined to touch upon his Fb submit when contacted by CNBC.
A Supreme Court docket spokeswoman didn’t instantly reply to a request for Thomas to touch upon McDonald’s submit.
Thomas, in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, had chafed at the concept that so-called antimiscegenation legal guidelines banning interracial marriage have been similar to related legal guidelines banning marriage between same-sex {couples}.
“The suggestion of petitioners and their amici that antimiscegenation legal guidelines are akin to legal guidelines defining marriage as between one man and one girl is each offensive and inaccurate,” Thomas wrote in a footnote in his dissent.
He famous that America’s earliest legal guidelines banning interracial intercourse and marriage have been based mostly on the existence of slavery within the colonies and later states.
“Legal guidelines defining marriage as between one man and one girl don’t share this sordid historical past,” Thomas added. “The normal definition of marriage has prevailed in each society that has acknowledged marriage all through historical past.”
However on Friday, Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, stated Thomas left Loving v. Virginia off the listing of instances he needs reverse as a result of “it impacts him personally.”
“However he would not care in regards to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood,” Obergefell stated on the MSNBC present “The Reid Out.”
“I am simply involved that lots of of 1000s of marriages throughout this nation are in danger and the power of individuals throughout this nation to marry the particular person they love is in danger,” Obergefell stated on that present.
He added: “And for Justice Thomas to fully omit Loving v. Virginia, in my thoughts, is sort of telling.”
Connecticut
Missing Connecticut girl found alive 25 years after kidnapping with help from DNA testing
Connecticut police have located a New Haven girl — now a woman — who went missing 25 years ago, when she was just 2 years old.
Andrea Reyes, 27, was abducted in October 1999 by her non-custodial, biological mother, Rosa Tenorio, who brought her to Mexico.
“Thank you for sharing in our joy in finding our daughter Andrea. After 25 years, God has answered our prayers and blessed us with a chance to know her again,” Andrea’s stepmother said in an emotional statement during a March 12 press conference with the New Haven Police Department. “We recognize that this reacquaintance will have challenges, however, we are confident that God is building the path before us and leading our steps.”
Andrea’s father went on several trips to Mexico himself over the years to find his daughter, police said during the press conference.
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Andrea Reyes, now 27, was abducted in October 1999 by her non-custodial, biological mother, Rosa Tenorio, who brought her to Mexico. (NCMEC)
Andrea’s father and stepmother thanked law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Her stepmother also said DNA technology helped law enforcement develop a lead that ultimately led them to Andrea, who currently lives in Mexico.
She added that they “do not lose sight for those families waiting for their loved ones to be found.”
“We keep you in our prayers, hoping for the day that you, too, can be reunited with your loved ones,” Andrea’s stepmother said. “As we establish new connections over these days and months, we ask for your prayers and respect for our privacy. We hope that our good news will one day be your good news.”
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NCMEC’s age-progression photo image of Andrea Reyes. (NCMEC)
Mexican authorities apparently identified Reyes and her mother in 2000, but “it was advised that the Government of Mexico would not take further action to remove Andrea from her mother,” New Haven PD Sgt. John Moore said during the press conference.
Andrea apparently contacted the man she believed to be her father in 2023, when Det. Kealyn Nivakoff with the New Haven Police Department began to re-investigate the case. To confirm her identity, New Haven police partnered with forensic genetic genealogy research company Othram, which ultimately confirmed a father-daughter relationship between Andrea and her father.
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Family abductions are the second-most common type of child abduction in the United States, according to NCMEC.
Andrea Reyes’ father speaks during a March 12 press conference about finding his missing daughter after 25 years. (Facebook/ New Haven PF)
In 2023, NCMEC received 1,185 family abduction cases and 59% of all AMBER Alerts that were issued were for family abductions.
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“One of the biggest misconceptions about family abduction cases is that the children are safe and ‘not really missing’ because they’re with a parent,” Angeline Hartmann, director of communications at NCMEC, said in a statement. “At NCMEC, we know that there is a lot of emotion behind these cases, and these scenarios can be unpredictable and dangerous. These children ARE missing and living a life on the run with their kidnapper. They’re forced to lie about who they are and are often isolated. The recent recoveries of Andrea Reyes and Aziz Khan remind everyone that these kids can be found, no matter how long they’ve been gone.”
An arrest warrant for Tenorio remains active.
NEW YORK — The pilot of a small glider plane has died after crashing near an airport in southern Connecticut, state police announced Saturday.
Bradley Daar, 70, of Clinton, was piloting a single-engine ultralight glider on Friday afternoon when the aircraft crashed into the woods in the Town of Deep River, roughly 35 miles east of New Haven.
Officials responded to an area of Cedar Lake Road, also known as Route 145, at around 4:15 p.m. and located the victim, later identified as Daar. He was transported via helicopter to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, state police said.
A witness told local station WTNH that he saw an ultralight flying around when he “noticed [the pilot] was kind of struggling to maintain altitude.”
As Daar went to land, “he did what is known as a ‘go-round,’ [which is] a very common maneuver when you think there’s not enough runway or you’re unstabilized on the approach, [then] you go around to circle back,” the witness, Douglas Griswold, said. “It was around then when he went down.”
The Wild Sky GOAT Weight-Shift-Control aircraft crashed just off the departure end of runway 17 at Chester Airport, CT Insider reported, citing a spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board.
Connecticut State Police are handling the investigation and the NTSB, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Connecticut Airport Authority have been notified of the incident, state troopers said.
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