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Lisa Mascaro
Washington (AP) — The end of the Roe v. Wade case began in the Senate.
The Supreme Court's groundbreaking ruling paved the way for overturning the constitutional rights of abortion by President Donald Trump to identify conservative judges and transform federal justice. It was a Republican Senate partnership with.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell puts the strategy into action, blocking President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, changing Senate rules and easily confirming Trump's choices. Designed a transformation of the Supreme Court. For decades to come, it was a long game that tried to detain the majority of conservative courts. Trump and McConnell couldn't achieve that alone and needed the support of almost every Republican senator to reshape the bench.
Currently, the Republicans are heading for the November midterm elections, saying that voters will overturn the Roe v. Wade case to decide which party should rule Congress. Ready for a referendum on a court decision. As the country becomes polarized, Democrats have pledged legislation to protect access to abortion, and Republicans want to impose further restrictions, including a national ban on abortion.
"We will reacquire the Senate in November and will hold the Senate for a long time," predicted Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who celebrated the conference call decision. With a reporter on Friday.
The stakes are high and under the control of a well-balanced parliament. Biden's approval rate is low and economic conditions are severe with rising gas prices and other signs of inflation, so Republicans are favored to win both seats and regain control. The Democratic Party has only a few votes in the House of Representatives and has few evenly divided 50-50 Senates, as Vice President Kamala Harris votes in the event of a tie.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked to answer their jobs and if they gained control of Congress, including a national ban on abortion. He warned that he was planning more stringent measures.
"They are not allowed to do this," Pelosi said. "No doubt. In November of this year, the rights of women and all Americans will be voted." I did. The court's ruling in Roe v. Wade and the subsequent planned parent-child relationship v. Casey confirmed the constitutional right to access to abortion. Legislation occasionally surged, but there was rarely a strong majority in the House and Senate to overturn the reconciled law.
But McConnell put into practice a conservative judicial plan in early 2016, even before Trump became president. Knowing abortion and other issues imposed on conservative voters, he considers Obama's candidate to fill the court vacancy left by the unexpected death of Judge Antonin Scalia in February. I refused to do that. McConnell claimed it was too close to the November election.
It was an amazing, computational political move. Just before the Republican presidential candidate took the stage in a debate towards the South Carolina primary, McConnell shattered his decision and put the GOP in shape.
The Democrats were indignant and pushed Obama's Garland nomination, forcing McConnell, the Senate's majority leader, to refuse consideration. Trump won the presidential election in November, partly because he was a conservative in the late Scalia style and promised to fill the vacant seats in the courtroom.
During the Trump era, three new conservative judges appeared: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. All of this was confirmed under the new rule that McConnell lowered the threshold to a simple majority of 51 votes in order to pass the filibuster. oppose.
Republicans may have diverged from Trump on many issues, but almost all Senators are the majority of conservative courts, not just abortions. Stick to this because of the promises that may bring. Some senators feel stronger than others, but rashes of other policy and regulatory issues.
No Democrats voted for Barrett, and of the three Democrats who voted for Gorsuch, only Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is in office. He also voted for Kavanaugh.
Manchin said he was "warned" in the abortion decision by trusting Gorsuch and Kavanaugh under the oath that the Roe v. Wade case was settled as a case law.
The same distrust was expressed by Senator Susan Collins of Maine. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is two Republican senators who publicly support access to abortion.
"All Republicans knew this would happen if they voted to confirm these radical judges," said the New York Democratic Senate majority. Leader Chuck Schumer said.
Collins was furious on Friday, saying to her in a private meeting and her public testimony about the importance of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh's support for the case, and the decision was "considered. "Not" and "inconsistent."
"It is not conservative to abandon the precedent that the country has depended on for half a century overnight," Collins said in her statement. "It's a sudden and radical shock to the country that leads to political turmoil, anger, and further loss of confidence in our government."
Murkowski and Collins say Roe v. Wade. Introduced a law to legislate the protection of. It replaces the Democratic bill, which has already passed the House of Representatives but was blocked by the Senate for unreasonably expanding the right to abortion. ..
Two Republican women have legislative solutions as their top priority and priority, even though the House and Senate are unlikely to pass the bill. He said it must be a matter.
"It's up to Congress to respond," said Murkowski, who will be reelected in the fall.
But Republicans are moving in the opposite direction and are poised to impose further restrictions if they gain control of Congress in the fall.
When asked what kind of abortion bill the Republican Party would pursue if it took over the House of Representatives, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who spoke on behalf of Pelosi, said: Go to save as many lives as you can.
Congress is absent due to a two-week adjournment. Since the abortion decision was announced, crowds have gathered outside the Supreme Court across the street.
McConnell, who hasn't run for reelection this fall but wants to get enough seats to become a majority leader in the Senate again, has been with him for many years. He seemed happy with the results. for work.
"Millions of Americans have been praying, marching, and striving for today's historic victory for half a century," he said in a statement on Friday. "I'm proud to stand with them on a long journey and share their joy today."
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Associated Press writer One Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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