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Have to protect these rights whether its codifying roe or codifying the national floor of voting rights or restoring their preclearance is ability to pass legislation through the congress. but in the congress they now have to reach this super majority in the senate, which that gives a veto to the same red states. so what were seeing i think is kind of a pincer movement from several directions, which is driven by the uniform as you point out resistance of senate republicans but fundamentally enab...

Republican senator susan collins of maine. shes someone who supports abortion rights, and just this week she said she supports codifying roes protections into law. but lets flashback to the summer of 2018. then-president donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh. collins recounted a private conversation she had with him where kavanaugh assured her that roe was, quote, settled law. listen to what she said at the time. >> his views on honoring precedent would preclude attempts to do by stealth that w...

All right, so this weeks high profile abortion hearing left court watchers convinced the supreme court will likely overturn roe v. wade next summer. if they do that, reports suggest some republicans fear a backlash at the polls while democrats insist they would use the case to animate voters ahead of next years mid-term elections. but would republicans actually pay a political price? and to be quite honest, im not so sure. just look at the strange case of republican senator susan collins of main...

V. wade? and what if anything are you doing to prepare for that possibility? >> im not going to make an assessment how the supreme court will rule. what i will say is the president is committed to working with congress to the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion as protected by roe and announced his support for the womens health protection act and urges congress to pass it and i would reiterate something i conveyed yesterday. he believes that mississippis law violates womens constitut...

Address the makeup of the supreme court. i think thats why more legislators are endorsing the judiciary act. there were four new members of the house that endorsed it this week. >> brian, let me ask you a blunt question. again, not through any fault of their own but because of the unmooring of the republicans to anything even resembling republican mainstream views on abortion, this is way outside what has been marketable to mainstream republican voters. its vigilanteism. its placing bounties on ...

Like planned parenthood will bring to the courts. so we need a political and legislative strategy that engages in the necessary arm twisting to get the votes for the filibuster and then to pass the john lewis act, h. r-1, codifying roe v. wade and a bill to add seats to the supreme court. even if you pass a codification of roe, this 6-3 court will be unfriend ly to those measures. you need a solution that deals with the makeup of the court itself. >> mike schmidt, i want to ask you about some re...

Rights. so this is when you are going to see these republican-controlled state legislatures pushing through as many bills as possible while we have the supreme court doing nothing to stop them and also while we have this question in congress whether or not senate dems are going to step up to the plate and take action into codifying roe. absolutely thats what congress needs to do. congress needs to act like they have public support. congress needs to act like they have tools available to them to ...

Effectively bans abortions after six weeks. kentucky, louisiana, oklahoma, ohio, and more are expected to follow." so it seems as if at this point, juanita, this is just the beginning for this type of restrictive through we are seeing in texas. these republican states now getting on board and saying texas has found a loophole and were going to follow suit. >> thats exactly right. we can expect more of this across the country. and its honestly following the same copy and paste, the same coordinat...

About, you know, the womens health protection act and the potential legislation and what can be done, i mean, i know thats what nancy pelosi is pushing. thats what biden is talking about, president biden, im sorry, but i think we should be really clear, a, it doesnt seem that that has support in the senate. i think you said joe manchin notwithstanding. and i think there is a larger question buried somewhere in one of your questions about whether the supreme court would just turn around and strik...

Of law school and my heart started pounding. im in law school. i can do it. lets power through. i will say that the questions about, you know, the womens health protection act and the potential legislation and what can be done, i mean, i know thats what nancy pelosi is pushing. thats what biden is talking about, president biden im sorry, but i think we should be really clear, a, it doesnt seem that that has support in the senate. i think you said joe manchin not with standing. and i think there ...