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If only. Democrats are historically milquetoast in response to Republicans.
This charade has been going on for 40-some years or more. At least since the likes of Reagan and Gingrich.
The court could go out of their way to rule on the case and make sure it only applied to Trump and only in this instance.
Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn't mean they will use it to stop fascism. Sadly, too many in the Democratic party are invested in the US Empire to just let go of how things currently work. Their long inability to act is literally why we are at the precipice of fascism fully taking over. The Democrats fell in line with Bush's illegal war in Iraq, and they declined to do anything about the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. signed off on torture. We're about to have Trump as a Dictator because we refused to do anything about leaders who were and are war criminals. People expecting Biden to do something, even if it is ruled in his favor, are waiting in false hope, imho.
EDIT: To be clear, I'd be ecstatic to be proven wrong, honestly. It would be nice to see Democrats really stand on the right side of history, not just partially or out of convenience.
Democrats had the opportunity to enshrine Roe after the 2020 election. They had a trifecta. They could have passed whatever they wanted and the Republicans would have had to suck it. And they deserved to go unheard, too, because it's what Republicans did to Democrats for four years. Abortion is overwhelmingly favored among the voter base. We've been seeing abortion rights being protected on state ballot measures, even in states Trump won by wide margins. What we needed for half a century was a law on the books explicitly granting the right to an abortion rather than a SCOTUS decision based on an interpretation of an Amendment that doesn't explicitly guarantee that right. So why did the Democrats do basically nothing to enshrine Roe between 2021 and 2023?
I'm still going to vote blue because the options are either fascists or business as usual. Do I really have a choice? So while we're at it, fuck the two-party system.
And it's not just that particular Congress's fault Roe wasn't enshrined. There were other Democrat trifectas after Roe. The last Congress just happened to be the one to oversee the overturn of Roe.
God I am so sick of hearing that. Anything less than a Constitutional amendment would do fuck-all to protect abortion because Republicans would just repeal any law the Democrats passed. How do you not get that? Or are you just a Republican troll trying to demotivate Democrats?
Sure bud. I'm a Republican troll. Don't worry about going through my comment history to learn a shred about who I am or what I stand for.
You think I'm not aware they'd try to repeal it? Trifectas are rare so it'd be some work to pass a law repealing it. It'll die in a chamber or get vetoed. It took a Republican trifecta just to end the Individual Mandate of the ACA, but the ACA is otherwise still in effect. But even if it only took a few years for Republicans to repeal an act granting the right to an abortion, at least they tried directly addressing the issue instead of shrugging and going "well that's that."
Yes, it'd be a lot of back and forth at the federal level for a while until people got sick of it and an Amendment actually made it to ratification. Until then, Amendments are practically impossible. Over 10,000 Amendments have been proposed since founding, but only 27 have been ratified. We can't even get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, despite its popularity. So what makes you think 37 states would vote to ratify an Abortion Amendment? Would you also have been a naysayer in '64 when Johnson signed the umpteenth Civil Rights Act into law?
Don't get me wrong. I want an Amendment too. An Amendment is the strongest form of protection. But it's also got a very slim chance of happening within our lifetimes. I'll celebrate the moment I hear of its proposal, but I'm also not holding my breath for ratification.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Mmm, yes, much better to just throw around off-the-wall accusations based on a couple sentences
I'm sorry, WHO is trying to demotivate people?
"Republicans will overturn everything anyway so fuck it why try"
GTFO here with that. Abortion was a losing platform in multiple states this last cycle - If we had locked it into law on the federal level, yes Republicans would overturn it day one but they'd have had to do it in front of the whole world on the national level removing any wishy washy state by state bullshit argument that they love using to compartmentalize themselves from every evil thing the right does.