Despite controlling the White House and Congress, Democrats seem powerless to fight the assault on Roe v Wade but hope it will energise midterm voters
, who control the House, the Senate and the White House, echoed their outrage and vowed a response.
“It is craven and we won’t stand for it,” she said. “I’m not going to sit quietly and neither should any of you.”and a Democratic Congress, the party finds itself largely powerless at present, without a legislative path forward to protect abortion rights in the likely event the court reverses its decision in Roe.
But the reality of Democrats’ thin congressional majorities is that they don’t have enough support in the evenly dividedto codify abortion protections, nor do they have the votes to eliminate the so-called filibuster rule, thus allowing legislation to pass with a simple majority. Senator Joe Manchin, an anti-abortion Democrat from West Virginia, voted with Republicans to block consideration of the bill. The bill also failed to attract the support of two pro-choice Senate Republicans, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who have introduced separate legislation that they say would codify Roe.“A vote on this legislation is no longer an abstract exercise. This is as urgent and real as it gets,” he said.
On Tuesday, as the country reeled from the revelation that the supreme court was likely to dismantle Roe, Oklahoma’s Republican governor
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