After stating on Tuesday that the Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage in 1967, Senator Mike Braun, a Republican from Indiana, now says he “misunderstood” the question asked by a reporter.
The subject came up during a conference call about about President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, who is in her second day of confirmation hearings. Braun said he is in favor of striking down Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, and also Loving v. Virginia, which made interracial marriage legal nationwide. The landmark 1967 case was made into the 2016 film starring Ruth Negga, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and Joel Edgerton.