This is the inside story of how the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — shooting down compromise and testing the boundaries of how the law is decided.

To dismantle that decision, Justice Alito and others had to push hard, the records and interviews show. Some steps, like his apparent selective preview of the draft opinion, were time-honored ones. But in overturning Roe, the court set aside more than precedent: It tested the boundaries of how cases are decided.

  • silence7OP
    8·
    7 months ago

    Doing that legally is really tough: it takes a 2/3 vote in the Senate.

    It’s more realistic to expand the court, which doesn’t require as many votes.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
      English
      11·
      7 months ago

      It would require legislation to expand the courts. And Democrats love the filibuster more than justice.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
          English
          11·
          7 months ago

          Not in the slightest. Democrats have had the choice to codify Roe or preserve the filibuster. They chose the filibuster. They had the choice to pass the John Lewis voting rights act or preserve the filibuster. They chose the filibuster over voting rights. Every successful Republican filibuster is an example of Democrats choosing their precious Jim Crow relic excuse for inaction over the people who voted for them.

          Democrats could get rid of it forever and relegate it to the shitpile of history where the it’s always belonged with a simple majority vote, but they don’t want to.