Justice Alito Criticizes Dismissal of Jurors for Beliefs About Same-Sex Marriage

He warned that such decisions ’may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come.’
Justice Alito Criticizes Dismissal of Jurors for Beliefs About Same-Sex Marriage
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 7, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently warned that the dismissal of jurors in a case due to their conservative views on marriage and relationships “exemplifies the danger” he foresaw when the court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.

Justice Alito’s criticism came as part of a lawsuit over two prospective jurors who were dismissed from a civil trial in Missouri after admitting that they believe same-sex relations are a sin based on their religious faith.

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