The U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage, Indiana Sen. Mike Braun, a Republican, argued on Tuesday. 

Suggesting the historic Loving v. Virginia ruling by the Supreme Court decades ago was a case of improper judicial activism, Braun said the court should have left that decision to the individual states, including those which had already outlawed interracial marriage. 

“When you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings, they’re going to be out of sync with maybe what other states would do,” Braun told reporters. “It’s the beauty of the system, and that’s where the differences among points of view in our 50 states ought to express themselves.”

The Republican’s larger point was to publicly dissuade President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, away from what he described as “activist” behavior from the bench. 

“She seems well-qualified. But whenever I vote for a Supreme Court […]