06-25-2022, 08:36 AM
If nothing else, the overturning of Roe v. Wade should compel the Democrats to switch sides on the filibuster.
And here's why:
If, come 2025, there is a Republican is in the White House, and the Republicans also have majorities in both houses of Congress, they can try to pass a law making abortion a federal crime. But the Democrats would filibuster it to death in the Senate unless the Republicans have a three-fifths majority in the Senate - something the Republicans have not had in 100 years.
The same scenario would pertain if Obergefell v. Hodges, Lawrence v. Texas, Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, and even Brown v. Board of Education were to get "revisited" by the SCOTUS.
And here's why:
If, come 2025, there is a Republican is in the White House, and the Republicans also have majorities in both houses of Congress, they can try to pass a law making abortion a federal crime. But the Democrats would filibuster it to death in the Senate unless the Republicans have a three-fifths majority in the Senate - something the Republicans have not had in 100 years.
The same scenario would pertain if Obergefell v. Hodges, Lawrence v. Texas, Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, and even Brown v. Board of Education were to get "revisited" by the SCOTUS.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892