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Which justices voted to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick in Lawrence v. Texas?
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In the 2003 Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, five justices voted to both strike down the Texas law and explicitly overrule the court's previous decision in Bowers v. Hardwick. These justices were:
While Justice Sandra Day O’Connor also voted to invalidate the Texas law, she did so based on the equal protection clause rather than the due process grounds used to overturn Bowers. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, as they would have upheld the Texas law.1