Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris stated on Tuesday that she helps eliminating the Senate filibuster to cross laws to revive federal abortion rights.
In 2022, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade by a vote of 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, eliminating the constitutional proper to abortion.
“I’ve been very clear—I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris stated throughout an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio. “Fifty-one votes would be what we need to actually put back in the law—the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”
Present Senate guidelines require that if laws is filibustered by a senator, 60 votes are required earlier than a problem could be voted on, even when a majority helps a proposal.
