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.”
They aren’t about to win a fucking trifecta. It will be a miracle if they keep the senate tied, let alone win the white house and take back the house.
Of course it is easy to say now all this shit if THAT is the condition for actually doing it: total control of government.
(And then SCOTUS can still throw it out as unconstitutional because that was the entire point of overturning roe v wade: it made the decision constitutional case law, which overrides legislated statutes.)
With Biden no, but both the House and Senate are in play, and if you win one you probably win the others because the same sentiment that brought out votes to claim the Senate boosted House races and vice versa. Trifectas in a new administration are common. Reagan, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden all had trifectas. The only ones who didn’t start with them were the Bushes.