A landmark U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling that protects married couples' capability to acquire and use contraception is "constitutionally unsound," in accordance with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn.

Blackburn made the remarks in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday, because the Tennessee Republican ready for Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Courtroom. Committee member Blackburn is amongst different Republicans who've mentioned it's time to rethink landmark courtroom rulings with an ascendant conservative majority on the Courtroom.

In her video, Blackburn referred to as out the Supreme Courtroom's 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut choice that struck down a state legislation banning using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the aim of stopping conception." The Courtroom dominated the legislation violated the constitutional proper to privateness, which later served as the idea for the correct to obtain entry to abortion care within the U.S.

Marsha Blackburn Speaks During Committee
Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, speaks throughout a affirmation listening to for Supreme Courtroom nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Senate takes up the historic nomination on Monday of Jackson to grow to be the primary Black girl to take a seat on the Supreme Courtroom. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/Getty Photographs

"Constitutionally unsound rulings like Griswold v. Connecticut...confused Tennesseans and left Congress questioning who gave the courtroom permission to bypass our system of checks and balances," mentioned Blackburn.

Within the video, Blackburn questioned the health of Jackson, nominated by President Joe Biden final month to be the primary Black girl to function a Supreme Courtroom justice. Blackburn took challenge with Jackson not specifying her judicial philosophy throughout hearings final yr for a seat on the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Jackson described her judicial philosophy in response to written questions final yr as approaching "all instances with skilled integrity, that means strict adherence to the rule of legislation, protecting an open thoughts, and deciding every challenge in a clear, easy method, with out bias or any preconceived notion of how the matter goes to end up."

However Blackburn mentioned she was left "shocked and confused" by Jackson's response.

"How is it that a decide who cannot say how or if she's going to apply the Structure in her rulings is up for a seat on the Supreme Courtroom?" requested Blackburn.

Blackburn mentioned "a number of liberal activists" view the Supreme Courtroom as "a rubber stamp for his or her cultural agenda."

If confirmed, Jackson just isn't anticipated to tilt the Supreme Courtroom's present 6-3 conservative majority. The Courtroom in December signaled it was keen to undermine and even reverse Roe v. Wade, a watershed choice that legalized abortion nationwide almost 50 years in the past.

With Roe doubtlessly on the chopping block, some Republicans are hoping the Courtroom will go even additional.

Three Republican candidates for Michigan legal professional common mentioned in February that Griswold was wrongly determined, in accordance with a report in left-leaning Mom Jones. Two candidates later instructed The Detroit Information they did not desire a ban on contraception.

Dana Nessel, Michigan's present Democratic legal professional common, reacted with a tweet calling the opposition to the ruling "terrifying."

In a 2012 Republican presidential debate, candidates Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney (now a senator from Utah) additionally mentioned they opposed Griswold.

Newsweek has reached out to Blackburn for remark.