Some US senators claim that they need 60 votes to overturn the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision which reversed Roe. They don’t. They can do it with a simple majority.
- None of the justices who voted to overturn Roe got 60 votes in their confirmation hearings when they were appointed to the court.
- If you add up all of the confirmation votes by senators for justices who favored keeping Roe, it totals more votes than those from senators who voted for justices who opposed Roe.
Right now, there are 55 senators who claim to be pro-choice. They could overturn the SCOTUS decision today if they wanted to.
NEWS FLASH: They don’t want to overturn the SCOTUS decision and make abortion legal.
They are lying to you.
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Senators voting for SCOTUS nominee at confirmation:
Votes for justices who support Roe
87
78
68
63
total = 296
Votes for justices who oppose Roe
52
58
54
50
52
total = 266
@Pat That's not how the federal government works.
You can't overturn a constitutional matter with a simple majority of one house of the legislature.
>"You can't overturn a constitutional matter with a simple majority of one house of the legislature."
What Constitutional matter? The court just said that there was no Constitutional matter. That was what Dobbs was all about -- they said there in nothing in the Constitution about abortion.
So congress can pass a law about it, as long as they don't violate some other provision of the Constitution.
And we're not talking about one chamber. We're talking about a majority in each house, without a veto from POTUS. That's how laws are made.
Read the opinions. SCOTUS explicitly says in the decision that the matter needs to be taken up by lawmakers, not the court.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate in this area (according to previous court decisions), so congress can pass a law that regulates it.
It's the same way that Congress regulates anything else.
Sounds like you're just doubling down saying it's a constitutional matter to say what is a constitutional matter, which is what I'm saying.
@Pat
If the Court said that there was no constitutional matter, then that itself is a constitutional matter, that can't be changed by a simple majority vote in the legislature.
What is or isn't in the Constitution is dictated by the Constitution.
If people want to make it into a constitutional matter then they need to amend the Constitution to put it in there.