Chicago City Wire

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cursed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for comments regarding overturning Roe v. Wade and suggesting in a concurrence that the decision could be a precursor to challenging federal rights to gay marriage. 

“F*** Clarence Thomas,” Lightfoot told a crowd gathered at Pride Fest in the Park. 

Radio host Dan Proft addressed Lightfoot’s comments on Chicago’s Morning Answer Monday broadcast. 

“The sort of keen legal arguments, the sort of dispassionate analysis you'll get from a former partner at Mayer Brown,” Proft said, mocking Lightfoot’s vulgar language and lack of analysis. "It's really impressive. The legal mind of one mayor triple threat. Oh, well, that's how it goes. She's an identitarian Demagog. She's left to the corporate law world, and she's now just an identitarian street hustler. And so that's what you get at some, you know, gathering of fellow identitarians, right? That you get the street hustle and the incendiary rhetoric and so forth. The politics of this, obviously something we want to get to, you know, reactions coming from every quarter. But the first is the decision itself, because so much of this is performative outrage because of the draft opinion being leaked.”

Proft’s co-host Amy Jacobson promoted the pair’s comments on Twitter before the show. 

"@chicagosmayor at the Gay Pride event in Grant Park with a message for Clarence Thomas,” she tweeted.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported some in the crowd appeared aghast at Lightfoot’s commentary. 

“He thinks that we are going to stand idly by while they take our rights,” the Sun-Times reported Lightfoot saying. Lightfoot refused to respond to request for comment after the video was released.

Part of Thomas' recommendation in the ruling was to reconsider previous decisions that establish gay rights citing the 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges as an example that said there is a right to same-sex marriage.