• jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Codifying Roe would be pointless when SCOTUS has said it’s a state’s rights issue

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      5 months ago

      It’s pointless because it’s their golden goose. It’s only a states-rights issue because it was never legislated at the federal level, even when the Dems had a supermajority.

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        5 months ago

        I’m not following. The process to amend the constitution is far more complicated than passing a federal law. SCOTUS effectively blocked any federal law in their ruling that said it is a states’ rights issue. A federal law would not have changed that

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          The process to amend the constitution is far more complicated than passing a federal law. SCOTUS effectively blocked any federal law in their ruling that said it is a states’ rights issue.

          You’re right, Jeff.

          It’s just too hard to do. We shouldn’t expect better. How silly of me to think Democrats might do what they promise one day.