this week Governor Murphy also signed a law protecting people's right to marry someone of A different race its move meant to ensure interracial marriage is protected in New Jersey even if the US Supreme Court overturns that Federal right the bill signing comes just over a year after the nation's top Court overturned abortion rights and put a spotlight on other potentially vulnerable issues in which the court might intervene like the 1967 Landmark ruling loving V Virginia which prohibits States from outlawing interracial marriages Governor Murphy said in a statement he signed the bill because the nation quote faces an era of uncertainty and New Jersey will continue to stand on the right side of History the new law also applies to civil unions and comes about two years after the governor codified same-sex marriage rights