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Warren: Democrats ‘will suspend the filibuster’ to codify Roe v. Wade

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Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.

“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”

She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”

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"if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House."

You should have done that years ago when you had the opportunity and everyone was telling you, begging you, to do it.

Now it's too late.
Why didn’t anyone think to do this 16 years ago? Back when we were all getting health care?
How many times has Lucy promised to not pull back the football at the last moment?

They can't be trusted to follow through
If you can do it for RvW (which they absolutely should) then go ahead and fix the other stuff that supposedly requires a law like how to exclude fascist candidates from being elected president and legalizing weed and single payer health care and prohibiting book bans (1st amendment) and reproductive rights and everything else that has had the excuse of not being able to overcome a filibuster.

Actually do stuff!
there are currently enough votes in the Senate

do it now then
Can we just get rid of the fucking Lazy Filibuster, already? After all we know these geriatrics don't have the capacity to stand for hours and hours on the floor. To merely threaten cloture to filibuster is just dumb.

We almost did, but then Sinema blew it.
What does "suspend the filibuster" mean? Like people won't be able to filibuster anymore?

edit: I know what the filibuster is ... I'm curious about the suspension piece.
FUUUCKIN DO IT
I too trust that this Supreme Court will not strike down this new codified Roe instantly on some pretext. The Supreme Court is entirely above board and not political in any way.
so do it
I would bet money no matter what the election result is there will be enough dems who detract from the party to stop this. Same as it ever was.
I simply don't believe it coming from her.
Granted, if the Senate passed a law codifying Roe, it would die in the House.

However, why not show us that you have the votes and it can be done. Give us some action on the issue before the election.
if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025

They aren't about to win a fucking trifecta. It will be a miracle if they keep the senate tied, let alone win the white house and take back the house.

Of course it is easy to say now all this shit if THAT is the condition for actually doing it: total control of government.

(And then SCOTUS can still throw it out as unconstitutional because that was the entire point of overturning roe v wade: it made the decision constitutional case law, which overrides legislated statutes.)

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