Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.
“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”
She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”
Roe v Wade looked secure in 2008. It’s only in hindsight that we can say “coulda woulda shoulda”.
I’m not disagreeing with you. Things that important should be codified instead of being left to the whim of the courts.
For sure hindsight is 20/20. I wonder if we should retire that phrase.
If it looked secure back then, why was there talk of codifying it back then?
There wasn’t?
There was. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/obama-promised-to-sign-the-freedom-of-choice-act-o