Afterward, the couple disappeared for yichud - seven minutes of marital privacy as decreed by Jewish law.

The Biden approach has been to espouse "marital privacy," as if that had come under attack.

The Court based its ruling on a constitutional right of marital privacy derived from several constitutional provisions.

In 1972 it extended what began as a right of marital privacy to unmarried people.

And yes, contrary to Judge Bork, that includes some right of marital privacy.

Judge Bork told the committee he would "do my utmost to uphold" a right to marital privacy.

He found that the law violated a woman's right to marital and sexual privacy.

But support here for the First Couple seems to go beyond party politics and into a belief in marital privacy.

A majority of the Court said the law invaded a marital privacy implicitly protected by the Constitution.

In criticizing a major 1965 Supreme Court decision on the right to marital privacy, he stressed the importance of majority rule.