University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of law Scott Skinner-Thompson said, "The court has for a long, long time said: Look, if we define liberty only in terms of what was permitted at the time of ratification of the Bill of Rights or the 14th Amendment, then we’re stuck in time. Because in the 18th and 19th centuries, this country was not very free for many, many people — particularly women, particularly people of color."[166] Legal experts also raised the question of how Thomas would rule on interracial marriage that had only been affirmed as a right under Loving v. Virginia in 1967.[166] Texas Senator John Cornyn said after the decision "now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education", referring to similar decisions by the Supreme Court that ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional.[167]