Biden Calls for Filibuster ‘Exception’ to Codify Roe after ‘Outrageous’ Supreme Court Decision

[mystery-ak]

Biden Calls for Filibuster ‘Exception’
to Codify Roe after ‘Outrageous’ Supreme
Court Decision

By Diana Glebova

June 30, 2022 9:40 AM

Speaking from the NATO summit in Madrid on Thursday, President Joe Biden condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and called for an exception to the Senate filibuster to codify the federal right to abortion.

“We have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that, is to make sure that Congress votes to do that,” Biden said in response to a question from a Wall Street Journal reporter. He called the Supreme Court’s ruling “outrageous” and insisted that an exception to the filibuster is warranted to ensure the passage of legislation protecting unrestricted abortion access.

Biden then claimed the court’s decision presents a problem for privacy in the U.S. more broadly, and called for voters to cast their ballots in November for pro-abortion candidates.

“I think it’s a serious, serious problem that the court has thrust upon the United States, not just in terms of the right to choose, but in terms of the right of who you can marry, and a whole range of issues related to privacy,” the president said, adding that he will do “everything” he can to codify the federal right to abortion through Congress.

“Vote. Show up and vote. Vote in the off-year and vote, vote vote. That’s how we’ll change” the court’s decision, Biden said.

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[Kamaji]

This is a pretty stupid, f*cking statement to make from Spain, where abortion after 14 weeks is illegal except for serious risks to the mother's health and serious fetal defects.  Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Spain

[catfish1957]

It doesn't seem that long ago that constitutional law mattered, even if it didn't align with your ideological POV.

Now SCOTUS justices have to fear for their lives in controversial matters.  I knew we might devolve into banana republic status, but I didn't think it would happen this fast.

[Idiot]

It doesn't seem that long ago that constitutional law mattered, even if it didn't align with your ideological POV.

Now SCOTUS justices have to fear for their lives in controversial matters.  I knew we might devolve into banana republic status, but I didn't think it would happen this fast.

Yup....it's a slippery slope we find ourselves on....

[DefiantMassRINO]

There is no right to a Filibuster since it is not mentioned in the US Constitution and did not exist when the Constitution was orginally authored.

What strict Constitutionalism giveth, it also taketh away.

[Cyber Liberty]

The Rats haven't figured out yet that any attempt to "codify" abortion at the National level would likely be overturned by the SCOTUS who just decided that abortion is a subject that must be decided by the States, not the Federales.