• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    I agree they should pack the court, but also congress has impeachment power and several of the justices have been proven to not follow ethical rules. Not to mention the credible SA allegations and the illegitimacy of depriving Merrick Garland a vote and giving to Gorsuch. Finally, Congress could also just enshrine Roe into law and could have at any time done so and they didn’t so I blame Congress more than anybody

    • @[email protected]
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      -61 year ago

      When did they have the votes to enshrine Roe? And please be specific about dates and do a little research first.

      • @Eldritch
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        31 year ago

        Ouch. Hit with your own projection. Roe vs wade was passed in 1973. By a Republican majority supreme court. Immediately after it’s passage and for more than the next decade Republicans Or democrats either one could have easily passed it into law. But they didn’t. Only in the 1980s with the Resurgence of fascism frightening democrats for all the wrong reasons. Did the Trope of the timid stand for nothing Democrat and the dumber than dirt anti-abortion Republican Trope come into existence.

        By the 1990s it would have started becoming slightly hard to have passed it into law but was still doable. But they didn’t do it. The fashionably fascist Republicans did not have an interest in it since it would not expand their power. And the timid stand for nothing Democrats dare not. Because they saw how handily they were beaten by the fascist in 1980. But that still 20 plus years that it could have been passed to wide legislative and public support.

      • GodlessCommie
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        -11 year ago

        It was never about the votes, it was them not wanting to give up their fundraising cash cow by selling fear that republicans would take it away. Since they never acted when they had the chance, it was taken away.

          • GodlessCommie
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            -51 year ago

            Since RvW they had about 7 combined years to pass it when they had a supermajority.

            • @MegaUltraChicken
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              41 year ago

              The Democrats had a fillibuster proof majority for a whopping 72 days and they passed the ACA and Patient Protection Plan.

              • GodlessCommie
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                -41 year ago

                And during that same period they found the time to pass 161, mostly pointless, other laws. But nothing for the law Obama promised to sign day one.

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              Cool - you answered the question, gold star. Here’s one more - in those 7 years, was there ever a call from the public to put RvW into law? I’ll even settle for ONE call-to-action news article from that time period.

              One nobody who wrote the sentence “they should make RvW into the law” while the dems had a supermajority and I’ll say you have a point