Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.
“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”
She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”
So the rule suspending the filibuster would be written into the bill that isn’t passed yet? I feel like I’m not quite getting it … I’m confused about how the suspension works.
Basically, the senate doesn’t just vote on bills. It can also vote on how it handles the day-to-day procedures inside the senate. Warren is saying they would change the rules that make the filibuster a thing in order to get abortion protection passed.
Here’s a good explanation