SCOTUS overturns Roe megathread (pg 53 - confirmed)

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Why would Joe Biden let this happen

Well, if it's 5-4, not advancing Clarence Thomas to a full floor vote might have made the difference.

I'd be willing to bet good money this draft opinion is 6-3, and thus not giving Thomas a hearing is moot.

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Would the Democrats be able put abortion protections in a reconciliation bill? It'd pass the House and probably the Senate honestly. Sinema would be yes, Manchin idk, Collins probably yes, Murkowski idk, Casey idk.

Democrats would have to kill the fillibuster to even try it, as it's not going get through reconciliation (no Senate Parliamentarian will agree to that) and other than maybe Murkowski, I can't think of a single Republican who would oppose a fillibuster of any abortion protection.

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Would the Democrats be able put abortion protections in a reconciliation bill? It'd pass the House and probably the Senate honestly. Sinema would be yes, Manchin idk, Collins probably yes, Murkowski idk, Casey idk.

Democrats would have to kill the fillibuster to even try it, as it's not going get through reconciliation (no Senate Parliamentarian will agree to that) and other than maybe Murkowski, I can't think of a single Republican who would oppose a fillibuster of any abortion protection.

Dumb filibuster. Hopefully the court strikes down Texas' law. 15 weeks is less than 22 weeks but still enough time for a woman to find out she's pregnant and obtain an abortion. Texas is not enough time. Pregnancy is typically measured from ovulation, so six weeks means only four weeks after a missed period, which is not enough time to be sure of the change to get a pregnancy test and obtain an abortion.

Given Republicans are going to be trying to be passing fetal personhood, if not on by judicial fiat, then by constitutional amendment or just by plain legislation (which the current Supreme Court will uphold)...I think you are wrong here.

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I'm actually shocked that the Justices don't seem to have wrote in fetal personhood.