Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was considering changing or open to changing or may change the filibuster rules next year to pass a federal Roe law, enshrining national abortion rights. Schumer said that he would pass two voting rights laws under a filibuster exception. On abortion he said, “I have to discuss that with my caucus. This is one of the issues we would have to debate and discuss and evolve.”
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Id rather the whole fillibuster be nuked, but this is a perfectly acceptable start. We gotta get them the votes to be able to follow through though. VOTE!
They only had 50 years to nuke the filibuster, all it takes is a simple majority.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
It’s always next time, like a carrot dangled in front of voters to lure them to the polls, only to be shit on, again.
It’s more that there have never been the votes to do it, but there might be after the coming election.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was considering changing or open to changing or may change the filibuster rules next year to pass a federal Roe law, enshrining national abortion rights.
Saying that you’re going to do it if you have the numbers and trump isnt in office to veto it would be a lot better…
But that’s apparently too much of a commitment.
I mean. Ideally we’d have done it during Bidens first two years when we had the chance.
But it’s good to hear that Schumer is checks notes considering being open to maybe doing something 6 months from now…
Possibly
This is what a trial balloon looks like.
He can’t do it today because the House is controlled by Republicans, and they won’t go along with passing anything.
A trial balloon for what?
To see if Dem voters want Roe vs Wade codified still or if we changed our mind over the last 30 some years we’ve been saying we need to do it?
He can’t do it today because the House is controlled by Republicans, and they won’t go along with passing anything.
What was the excuse for 2020-2021?
It’s a trial balloon for actually doing it.
In 2020-2021 Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema weren’t willing to go along, so the votes weren’t there.
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They’re both going to be gone. If the election goes well, Kristen Sinema will be replaced by Ruben Gallego, and there will be 50 Senators + the VP willing to pass this kind of change.
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We were discussing:
Schumer said that he would pass two voting rights laws under a filibuster exception. On abortion he said, “I have to discuss that with my caucus. This is one of the issues we would have to debate and discuss and evolve.”
And you bring in a completely different topic to jump up and down about.
Are any other Dems going to say they oppose it? We don’t know yet. Because Schumer wouldn’t call a vote so we could identify which incumbents need to be replaced.
He could hold the vote now. Show people which Republicans need replaced.
Um…what? Are you saying that anything could be done to “replace” a handful of incumbents literally 68 days before the election? Please play that scenario out for me. Say 5 Democrats voted in a way that showed you they “need to be replaced”, and you wake up ready to put a game plan into motion on…checks notes…Thursday, August 29th. What do you do to “replace” those incumbents, starting tomorrow? Keep in mind the deadline for ballot access was like a week ago, and you don’t really know what states they’re from, so presumably you have no idea who you’d even need to reach out to in order to find a candidate, let alone convince someone to run, hire campaign staff, film ads, buy airtime, schedule debates, and barnstorm their constituency. Tell me your first week’s activity.
But I don’t think I’m going to get any answers here
You mean in response to your ludicrous, illogical questions? No, no you’re not. Glad you’re not expecting any.
Should have done it during Obama’s first term, when we had the votes. But it was deemed “not a priority” after we voted them into a supermajority.
So yeah, I think your skepticism of Schumer’s intent here is warranted.
The bill has already been drafted and ready for a vote since 2003. Barbara Boxer in the House and Jerry Nadler already had the legislation drafted. PELOSI refused to bring it to a vote.
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