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WASHINGTON (AP) – The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate.
It was the Republican partnership of the Senate with President Donald Trump to confirm conservative judges, and to transform the federal judiciary, which paved the way for the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling to overthrow the constitutional right to abortion.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell set the strategy in motion and designed the Supreme Court’s reform by blocking President Barack Obama’s 2016 nomination of then-Judge Merrick Garland and changing Senate rules to make Trump’s choices easier. to confirm. It was a long game that tried to close a conservative court majority for decades. Trump and McConnell, R-Ky., Could not have achieved this alone, and needed the support of almost all Republican senators to reform the bank.
Now Republicans are on their way to a November midterm election that is poised to quickly become a referendum on the court’s decision to oust Roe v. Wade, while voters decide which party should control Congress. With the nation polarized, Democrats promise legislation to protect access to abortions and while Republicans want to impose further restrictions, including a nationwide ban on abortions.
“We are going to take over the Senate in November and we are going to hold the Senate for a long time,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Who celebrated the verdict Friday during a conference call with reporters.
The stakes are high with the control of Congress in the balance. With Biden’s approval rating low and economic conditions grim with high gas prices and other signs of inflation, Republicans are favored to pick up seats in both rooms and regain control. Democrats have only a slim few vote margin in the House and barely hold the evenly divided 50-50 Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris casts a vote in the event of a strike.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has warned Republicans will be called to account for their work and plan even more draconian measures if they gain control of Congress, including a nationwide ban on abortion.
“They can not be allowed to do that,” Pelosi said. “Make no mistake: The rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November.”
Before Trump was elected, the country’s abortion wars settled in an awkward ceasefire in Congress. The court’s rulings in Roe v. Wade and the subsequent Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirmed a constitutional right of access to abortion. Legislation flared up from time to time, but there were rarely fixed majorities in the House and Senate to repeal established legislation.
But McConnell, R-Ky., Launched his plans for a Conservative judiciary in early 2016, even before Trump became president. Knowing of the power abortion and other issues held for conservative voters, he refused to consider Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy in court left by Conservative Judge Antonin’s Scalia’s death that February. McConnell argued it was too close to the November election.
It was an astonishing, calculating political move. McConnell broke down his decision just before Republican presidential candidates were about to take the stage for a debate on the way to the South Carolina primary, which set the tone for the GOP.
Democrats, furiously, continued Obama’s nomination of Garland only to have McConnell, as the majority leader in the Senate, refuse to take it up for consideration. Trump won the November presidential election in part on the promise to fill the court vacancy with a conservative in the form of the late Scalia.
The Trump has brought in three new Conservative judges – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Each was confirmed under new rules orchestrated by McConnell that lowered the threshold to a simple majority of 51 votes, to push past a filibuster of opposition.
While Republican senators may have disagreed with Trump on many issues, almost all Senate Republicans have remained on this one for the promise a conservative court majority can make – not just about abortion, which some senators feel stronger about than others, but the result. of other policies and regulatory issues.
No Democrats voted for Barrett, and of the three Democrats who voted for Gorsuch, only Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, remains in office. I also voted for Kavanaugh.
Manchin said he was “alarmed” about the abortion decision, after trusting Gorsuch and Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that Roe v. Wade set a legal precedent.
The same disbelief was expressed by Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who along with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the two Republican senators who publicly support access to abortion.
“Every Republican senator knew this would happen if they voted to uphold these radical justices,” said Chuck Schumer, leader of the Senate majority.
Collins appeared furious on Friday, saying the verdict was “ill-considered” and “inconsistent” with what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh told her in private meetings and their public testimony about the importance of supporting judicial precedents.
“Setting an overnight precedent on which the country has relied for half a century is not conservative,” Collins said in a statement. “This is a sudden and radical push for the country that will lead to political chaos, anger and a further loss of confidence in our government.”
Murkowski and Collins introduced legislation that would start the Roe v. Wade protection in the law, an alternative to the Democrats’ bill that has already passed the House but has been blocked in the Senate as an unnecessary extension of abortion rights.
The two Republican women said a legislative solution is extremely important, and should be a priority, despite the likelihood that the House and Senate will pass a bill.
“It’s up to Congress to respond,” said Murkowski, who is eligible for re-election in the fall.
But Republicans are moving in the opposite direction, ready to impose further restrictions if they gain control of Congress in the fall.
Asked what type of abortion legislation Republicans will work to promote if they take over the House, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who is in line to replace Pelosi as speaker, said: “We will continue to look wherever we go. can go on to save as many lives as possible. “
Congress is gone for a two-week rest period. Crowds have gathered outside the Supreme Court, across the street, since the abortion decision was released.
McConnell, who is not eligible for re-election this fall but hopes to win enough seats to become the majority leader in the Senate again, seemed pleased with the outcome of his years-long work.
“Millions of Americans have spent half a century praying, marching and working toward today’s historic victories,” he said in a statement Friday. “I was proud to stand with them during our long journey and I share their joy today.”
Associated Press authors Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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