Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., suggested Sunday that he hopes to nominate Supreme Court justices who will overturn the court’s ruling allowing same-sex marriage in all states, but hedged on how hard he would work to overturn the decision.
“It is the current law,” Rubio said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I don’t believe any case law is settled law.”
“Any future Supreme Court can change it,” he said. “And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.”
The high court voted 5-4 in last year’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision to strike down state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Rubio called the ruling “bad law,” that found a “hidden” constitutional right to same-sex marriage and improperly revoked states’ power to make their own marriage laws.
But he did not offer his personal view on same-sex marriages, and declined to say specifically if he would work to overturn it if he is elected president next year.
The Florida senator dismissed the idea of a constitutional amendment aimed at rejecting the court’s action.
“That would be conceding that the current Constitution is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed,” he said.
