On the first day of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court in an unsigned opinion upheld a lower court ruling that enforces Texas’ ban on certain emergency abortions. The Biden administration had sought to overturn the ban and enforce its policy requiring hospitals to perform the emergency, potentiall...
  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    22·
    20 hours ago

    Logically, the answer would have to be that Democrats lack the power to preserve it. Which happens to be true because:

    1. Ordinary legislation would not be sufficient to overturn state laws regarding abortion due to the 10th Amendment, and even if it was the 2/3 Republican court would overturn it anyway.
    2. A constitutional amendment would require a 2/3 majority that Democrats will not have in this lifetime.
    • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      332·
      19 hours ago

      And so why weren’t the courts getting stacked the moment Biden took office?

      • Kalysta@lemm.ee
        4·
        55 minutes ago

        Remember Diane Feinstein?

        She was a crucial vote to fill court seats for biden. She also had dementia and then died. Her absence from the senate was part of what slowed filling vacancies.

        Also assholes like Manchin and Sinema - may they rot in hell.

        The democrats have become Such a big tent party that there’s no more room for common sense.

      • Worstdriver@lemmy.world
        221·
        18 hours ago

        Two reasons:

        1. Ethics
        2. The GOP engaged in a campaign of doing everything, fair and foul, to prevent or at least slow this from happening.