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
That's false. Codifying Roe v. Wade as law would require the votes of a simple majority in the House of Representatives, and a filibuster-proof majority of at least 60 Senators.
The Republicans control the House now, so a bill codifying Roe would not even reach a floor vote. The Republicans also have more than 40 Senators.
That account is so over-the-top, I get the sense that it may be attempting some sort of parody.
Whatever that account's intentions may be, since Roe's repeal, the Pro-Republican Left has been engaged in an extremely extensive and well-coordinated campaign of lies, falsely blaming the Democratic Party for what SCOTUS did.
The Democratic Party does not currently have the ability to reinstate Roe's protections. All claims that they could do so if they wanted to are false.
A lot of Republicans claim to be pro-choice, enough for a majority in each house. Also, the Democrats had a majority in both houses when SCOTUS handed down the Dobbs decision. They could have easily changed it then.
The filibuster rule can be changed with a simple majority. That's how they changed it when they first confirmed a justice with fewer than 60 votes.
@barney
The reason why they don't want to make abortion legal and settle the issue is because it brings in lots of campaign $$$ and rallies the base on both sides.
(ps - I don't respond to ad hominem attacks)