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To dismantle that decision, Justice Alito and others had to push hard, the records and interviews show. Some steps, like his apparent selective preview of the draft opinion, were time-honored ones. But in overturning Roe, the court set aside more than precedent: It tested the boundaries of how cases are decided.
You’re using “Democrats” here to refer to the fact that they had 50/100 votes in the Senate, so even a single Democrat who objected could stop them. Manchin did that.
And if we had 55 votes, we would have 6 votes against ending the filibuster. There are always enough Manchins,
People kept saying that about climate legislation. Then they actually passed significant climate legislation despite the bare-minimum majority.
Getting a few more and better Democrats would make a world of difference in terms of what’s possible.
Got a source for that graph?
https://repeatproject.org/docs/REPEAT_IRA_Prelminary_Report_2022-09-21.pdf#page=7
I put more stock in page 5 than page 7.
Given what’s happened since, page 7 is likely to be an underestimate of the climate benefits.