WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights,” Biden said during a press conference in Madrid, where he was attending a NATO summit. The Democratic president said there should be an “exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”
As a former senator, Biden has been reluctant to support changes to the filibuster, which allows any member of the 100-member chamber to block action on legislation unless it receives 60 votes. However, earlier this year he endorsed sidestepping the rule on the issue of voting rights, and his latest comments make clear that he’s willing to do the same for abortion.
Biden’s support for changes to the filibuster in the 50-50 Senate may ultimately be immaterial. The Senate Democratic caucus would need to unanimously take such a step, but at least two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, don’t want to.
The president has been under pressure to take as much executive action as possible to protect abortion rights, although his options are limited. Biden said he’s meeting Friday with governors to talk about abortion and “I’ll have announcements to make then.”
During Thursday’s news conference, Biden harshly criticized the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion and reiterated his warnings that other constitutional protections could be at risk.
“One thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States in overruling not only Roe v. Wade but essentially challenging the right to privacy,” he said.
Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders said was vital to protecting democracy collapsed in January when Manchin and Sinema refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster. The outcome was a stinging defeat for Biden and his party, coming at the tumultuous close to his first year in office.
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This story has been corrected to show Biden says he’d back an exception to the filibuster, not eliminating the filibuster.
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As we see that this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt puppet president Biden do not respect, honor or obey our U.S. laws, Constitution or the Supreme Court of the U.S..
This treasonous, socialist Democrat Party will attempt to destroy anyone or anything that does not support the Democrat Party’s objective, whick is total control of the U.S.A and the people.
The reign of the Socialist Democrat Party State Dictatorship is just getting started.
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers, Gestapo, Woke and Cancel Culture are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the policies of the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as “Enemies of the State” and “Domestic Terrorists”.
24 Aug. 2020 – Monday on MSNBC’s “Live,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
referred to President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters as
“domestic enemies” and “enemies of the State”.
Pity we can’t strip him of his rank, and citizenship, and LEAVE HIM over there.
Of course he does—he’ll take his way any way he can get it. He would do that by Executive Order if he could.
Get over it! There was never any such RIGHT except in the tortured circuitous incomprehensible piece of jurisprudence handed down in 1973 which the legal profession lambasted as overreach from the moment it was published. Which now means it has to be made legal in the good old-fashioned way by legislation, a Presidential executive order will probably meet the same fate as Roe V Wade since the Court did say it was up to the states.
The right to Privacy is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, neither is abortion. They are BOTH chimeras created to fool THE PEOPLE. A human chimera is a person containing cells that have a different genetic makeup. Hollywood TV shows have a few examples of chimerism. On Grey’s Anatomy, an adolescent is found to be a hermaphrodite and a chimera when a tumor she harbors happens to be the testes of a vanished twin. Liberals have created such government Constitutional monstrosities when they created unnatural “rights to privacy” and “rights to abort” within the body of our American Constitution. Political equivalent tumors and impotent gonads unable to produce anything, but able to cripple or even kill like cancer when left within the living body of even a Liberally interpreted living Constitution. When in doubt cut them out, or risk that which can destroy the very life of the American host, kind of like what is happening these days to Joe Biden’s brain and Hunter’s warped anatomy.
Exactly. THERE NEVER ever was a right to privacy.
He should STAY in Spain!!!
If the Pain representing the plain, stays mainly on the plain in Spain,, he might just lose his reign, he already has lost his brain and gone insane.
Hmm. The Dem/Lib Progressives are not getting their way, so they want to “sidestep” the rules. I can’t believe Bidum-dum had the nerve to say that out loud!
Well, I guess I do.
But hasn’t that been the Progressive Modus Operandi for decades now, sidestepping rules when they don’t get their way?
When the Court sides in their favor that’s because they are wise and the rest of us should suck it up and deal with it. Shut up and just accept it. When it’s against them, the Court is a danger to Democracy and they want to pack it with as many Progressive activists they need to have control again, or end it all together. Constitution be damned.
And notice how all those years when there was a Progressive majority in the Court, there was nothing from either side about bias? I have, and I bet a lot of you have to.
How could you not?
How about this: Suck it up, Snowflakes! Put on your Big Boy Pants and do the job you signed up for, campaigned for and got elected into, taking an oath to follow and rules to govern by, and legislate. It’s right in there in the description of your jobs.
You are Legislators! If you think you have the right answers, legislate!
What? You don’t want to actually put your fingerprints anywhere on it? Or do you realize you don’t have the votes to pass it legitimately?
Aw. Too bad, so sad, don’t cry. Buh-bye.
Suck it up! You bunch of elitist pansy cowards.
the current leader of the cult of death joesph biden.
As I see it, Joe Biden committed an act of treason by criticizing the United States Supreme Court’s decisions before a foreign audience with no reason to speak on the subject. Biden has no right to speak of any internal governmental policies from his Bully Pulpit in a foreign country.
As a member of Congress, Biden refused to alter the “filibuster” but as President, Biden is in favor of altering the filibuster to bring to fruition his plans and agenda. Either of Biden’s actions this week should draw impeachment charges from Congress, but with so many Democrats in the House of Representatives, that action is not probable.
The House conducted impeachment proceedings against President Trump based on lies but was only able to impeach President Trump for Obstruction of Congress. Pelosi, who led the assault against President Trump, immediately obstructed Congress by refusing to turn the House Impeachment Documents over to the Senate, which is “Obstruction of Congress”! Democrats said nothing! Democrats have worked tirelessly to destroy everything President Trump accomplished without regard for the welfare of our citizenry! If you have not accepted this as fact and realize the harm Democrats have done in the last eighteen months, you are ignorant, insanely stubborn, or simply stupid!