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Republicans splinter on how to handle a post-Roe world
PoliticoAs Roe vs. Wade teeters, Republicans are fractured about what to do next. The split may turn into a chasm if they take back full control of Washington in 2025.
Some in the GOP now acknowledge they may eventually pursue national abortion restrictions should a majority of the Supreme Court follow through on its draft opinion overturning Roe, after spending several days trying to deflect by focusing on the document’s unauthorized disclosure. And there’s a range of opinions among Hill Republicans about what comes next: leave abortion policy to the states, pursue more modest restrictions or go all-out to install a ban nationwide.
For the most part, though, Senate Republicans agree that in a post-Roe landscape, with states left to install their own laws, the GOP may well find itself reorienting around a national barrier to abortion.
“There’s no secret, I want to protect every single child. So if there’s an opportunity to be able to move, protect more children if we can, I’m going to do it,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). But, he added that the 60-vote threshold required to get most legislation through the Senate would present “the same impasse ... There’s a big difference in voting for and actually moving legislation.”
Some in the GOP now acknowledge they may eventually pursue national abortion restrictions should a majority of the Supreme Court follow through on its draft opinion overturning Roe, after spending several days trying to deflect by focusing on the document’s unauthorized disclosure. And there’s a range of opinions among Hill Republicans about what comes next: leave abortion policy to the states, pursue more modest restrictions or go all-out to install a ban nationwide.
For the most part, though, Senate Republicans agree that in a post-Roe landscape, with states left to install their own laws, the GOP may well find itself reorienting around a national barrier to abortion.
“There’s no secret, I want to protect every single child. So if there’s an opportunity to be able to move, protect more children if we can, I’m going to do it,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). But, he added that the 60-vote threshold required to get most legislation through the Senate would present “the same impasse ... There’s a big difference in voting for and actually moving legislation.”
Why does this "right wing rag" keep running these "Democrats in disarray" stories?
Oh, right.....