by Donna on July 23, 2022 7:51 am
AOC and other Congressional Democrats have proposed handling the situation by codifying abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and even contraception through Congress.
A while back, Curt started a thread about AOC's proposal to restrict the Supreme Court's jurisdiction on abortion. Curt thought is was a stupid idea and so did I, but neither of us bothered to look how AOC planned to go about that.
And it wasn't just AOC.
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Marie Newman (Ill.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Mark Takano (Calif.), Kaiali’i Kahele (Hawaii) and Cori Bush's (Mo.) called for restricting the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction in the areas of not only abortion, but also marriage equality, non-procreative intimacy, and contraception through Congress taking legislative action to codify each of those rights they want to preserve.
Outside of that, there doesn't appear to be anything that can be done on a federal level.
I think the Republican party figured out a long time ago that the best path to enact their reactionary agenda wasn't going to be through Congress, but through the Supreme Court. That's why they pulled out all the stops to load the Supreme Court with justices they could count on to enact their agenda.
by islander on July 23, 2022 7:59 am
I agree with you 100% !
This whole nightmare has been a real eye opener and a lesson in what can happen if we start to become too complacent.
