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"Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights."

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[โ€“] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LMAO no. They absolutely cannot. The Repubs have basically deadlocked Congress now in their ideological war. Dems won't get any Repubs to join. But it's moot because Dems won't even bother. Even if they had a supermajority trifecta, they'd still kowtow and refuse to pass a bill without bipartisan support (like they always do). And we even have examples already. Congress knew for over a month that Roe was about to fall and did literally nothing to stop it. And in the time since, Dems haven't said a single word about it or done anything to codify reproductive rights at the federal level.

The dems haven't had a supermajority trifecta in over a decade and even that was just a few months and included a few independents. They passed massive legislation in this short time too. So it's time to get over it and learn how our government has worked at every other moment in time.