Democrats could, in theory, amend the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court, JohnCassidy writes. But they “appear to be stuck—with an unrepresentative political system, a stacked Court, and their own divisions conspiring against them.”
the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
The third lesson from the past few days is that brazenness and ruthlessness pay off, or, as Mitch McConnell might put it, “There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” Actually, this quotation comes from Leon Trotsky’s, but he and McConnell aren’t so far apart. In the past few decades, the G.O.P.
With the midterms slightly more than four months away, Democrats are hoping that anger over last week’s rulings will increase turnout and win over some wavering voters. “This fall, Roe is on the ballot,” Joe Biden said on Friday. With the overturning of Roe coming on top of the gutting of state gun laws, this response didn’t seem entirely adequate. Whatever happens in November, there is no immediate prospect of a change in the Court.
In theory, a Democrat-controlled Congress could now pass legislation restoring a version of Roe, and challenge the Court to strike it down. Given that the Party has only fifty votes in the Senate, it would have to amend or abolish the filibuster to do this, and, on Friday, Bernie Sanders reiterated his call for this very course of action. Referring to the G.O.P.
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