He could have codified it so it couldn’t be overturned, or only overturned by passing seemingly impossible hurdles. Plus this isn’t a shock, for four years it’s been known that this was on the table should Republicans win again, so any action would have at least been better optics than doing nothing. But it’s worth noting that Biden doesn’t personally support abortions anyways, so I reckon he’s happy about this (if he can understand what’s happening)
Hmm, out of curiosity, where did you come to this belief that congress can pass laws which are impossible to overturn or require hurdles to jump through to overtur? Did you read an article on it? Is the idea to couple an abortion bill with another bill trying to strip Supreme Court review authority?
While Biden was in office, you could at the very least imagine the reverse of what the topic of discussion is now.
Laws are just norms on paper that are constantly trampled via clever loopholes or spurious court-rulings - they don’t actually matter - what matters is who is wielding power and whether anyone is able to stop them. Law-enforcement or invocation of laws is how said power is applied to the stated laws, but stated laws are not a prerequisite to the enforcement of policy/statutes/whims. The lack of a legal pathway to achieve something simply articulates the class character of a polity, not the inability to obtain any certain goal. If something is made nigh impossible to do legally then that is just political deterrence and state-sanctioned
thanks biden
Good luck my fellow American comrades
What does Biden have to do with this? Even if he did something about Roe vs Wade getting overturned, they would’ve overturned his action, right?
He could have codified it so it couldn’t be overturned, or only overturned by passing seemingly impossible hurdles. Plus this isn’t a shock, for four years it’s been known that this was on the table should Republicans win again, so any action would have at least been better optics than doing nothing. But it’s worth noting that Biden doesn’t personally support abortions anyways, so I reckon he’s happy about this (if he can understand what’s happening)
Hmm, out of curiosity, where did you come to this belief that congress can pass laws which are impossible to overturn or require hurdles to jump through to overtur? Did you read an article on it? Is the idea to couple an abortion bill with another bill trying to strip Supreme Court review authority?
Isn’t every law equal? How would that work?
Biden could legally kill Trump.
Could’ve but he choose not to
bluefash and redfash
yeah it’s honestly more obama’s fault for having a supermajority and not using it to enshrine any type of rights
So what? He was at the highest power, he could have easily told repubs to fuck off and make overturning it impossible
How?
While Biden was in office, you could at the very least imagine the reverse of what the topic of discussion is now.
Laws are just norms on paper that are constantly trampled via clever loopholes or spurious court-rulings - they don’t actually matter - what matters is who is wielding power and whether anyone is able to stop them. Law-enforcement or invocation of laws is how said power is applied to the stated laws, but stated laws are not a prerequisite to the enforcement of policy/statutes/whims. The lack of a legal pathway to achieve something simply articulates the class character of a polity, not the inability to obtain any certain goal. If something is made nigh impossible to do legally then that is just political deterrence and state-sanctioned
Drone footage of every single anti-abortion senator while they’re taking a shit in the toilet for one.