For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.

Georgia Senate Republicans are once again pushing for Thomas to have a statue of himself, per Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Back in 2022, the party proposed a bill for the erection of his statue on the grounds of the state Capitol grounds but failed to get a vote in the state House,