Trump Boasts How Anti-Abortion Law Is His Doing, ‘We Have A Lot Of Fans In Texas’

It comes as no surprise that Donald Trump has no remote clue what the impact of Roe v. Wade being overturned will be. He did an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting and when asked about the Supreme Court and the Texas anti-abortion law, he responded in the only language which he possesses. He spoke of personalities and fandom, of “great people” doing “great jobs.” If he could have figured out a way to talk about ratings, that would have gotten in there as well.

Here is The Former Guy holding forth on a potentially changing constitutional law of great importance — which he says he is “studying.” Sweet Jesus.

Was that shallow and idiotic enough for you? The Supreme Court before Trump’s picks was “acting very strangely and not in the interests of our country,” but now it’s fine, just fine.

It’s listening to pap like this that just makes me want to nuke the filibuster, save Roe v. Wade and let’s expand the number of justices on the court while we’re at it. Dear God, every time a Republican gets in the White House we go twenty steps back culturally. The damage done with these three justices appointed in Trump’s four years can go on for decades if we don’t do something. Amy Klobuchar has similar thoughts, at least on the filibuster. Daily Beast:

Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Klobuchar said that while she hoped the highest court in the land wasn’t on track to overturn Roe, she warned that the signs all point to them soon overturning the landmark abortion case.

“In the past when they had cases that were so blatantly against Roe v. Wade, they would stay those cases when such requests came up. They did it with another Texas law. They did it in 2015. They did it in 2019,” she exclaimed “And, so, here you have them this year, this week, basically telling women in Texas that 85 percent of them seeking abortion services cannot exercise their constitutional rights.”

The Minnesota lawmaker added: “And they know very well that there are over 500 laws that are messing around with this, and you’re going to see cases just like this come before them. They did it at midnight with just less than 72 hours of debate, in Justice Kagan’s words. And basically greenlighted a law that is blatantly against Roe v. Wade.”

Asked by anchor Dana Bash what Democrats in Congress can do to protect abortion rights now that the Texas law has been allowed to take effect, for the time being, Klobuchar noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is bringing a House bill up to vote that will guarantee abortion access. “This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade,” Pelosi said in response to the Texas law.

Bash, however, pointed out that the filibuster will likely kill the bill in the Senate, since there likely aren’t 60 senators who will support it. Klobuchar, meanwhile, pointed to eliminating the filibuster altogether—a movement that has grown among Democrats in recent months as a way to pass voting-rights legislation and other items on President Joe Biden’s agenda.

“My solution to this—which is my solution for voting rights and so many other things, including climate change, where one side of the country is in flames, the other side of the country is flooded with people dying submerged in their cars—I believe we should abolish the filibuster,” the Democratic senator declared.

“I do not believe an archaic rule should be used to allow us to put our heads in the sand, to use Justice Sotomayor’s words, to put our heads in the sand and not take action on the important issues, the challenges that are facing our country right now, now and over the next years,” she continued. “We just will get nowhere if we keep this filibuster in place.”

That is the simple and sad truth of it. And if we don’t act soon, we will live to regret it. I hate to be the voice of doom, but I honestly believe that.