Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that her right-wing colleagues' finding that American citizens have no right to have their foreign spouses admitted to the U.S. will disproportionately harm same-sex couples—and could foreshadow a future reversal of federal LGBTQ+ marriage equality. Sotomayor's assertion that the majority's decision erodes LGBTQ+ marriage protections follow far-right Justice Thomas' suggestion in Dobbs that the high court should reexamine the right to same-sex marriage.