Democratic leaders come out swinging hard amid Supreme Court disaster
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released this blistering joint statement tonight, in response to the news that the Supreme Court is planning to strike down Roe v. Wade in an upcoming ruling:
If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years – not just on women but on all Americans.
The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.
Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation – all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century.
The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the party of Trump. Every Republican Senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices pretending that this day would never come will now have to explain themselves to the American people.
Elizabeth Warren, a leading Democratic Party voice, said this tonight: “An extremist Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and impose its far-right, unpopular views on the entire country. It’s time for the millions who support the Constitution and abortion rights to stand up and make their voices heard. We’re not going back—not ever.”
Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu, an emerging voice in the party, had this to say tonight: “We can make Roe v. Wade the law of the land next year: 1. Hold the House (which already passed the Roe v. Wade nationwide bill). 2. Elect two additional Senators who are Democrats. 3. Eliminate the filibuster.”
