Timeline for Can Congress enforce an overturned Supreme Court decision?
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| Oct 2, 2022 at 6:06 | vote | accept | moonman239 | ||
| Sep 27, 2022 at 6:11 | comment | added | Davislor | @phoog Agreed. Also worth mentioning that senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, two pro-choice Republicans, are co-sponsoring a different bill, the Reproductive Choice Act. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 6:06 | comment | added | phoog | @Mazura yes it's their job, but they are limited in performing it by the restrictions imposed by the constitution. This question is about the nature and extent of the restrictions. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 6:03 | comment | added | phoog | @Davislor aha, I see that I misread your comment "about abortion" to mean "protecting a right to abortion." Whether protecting or restricting abortion, I don't see there being 60 senators on either side anytime soon. But you're right; existing jurisprudence on abortion has not had much to do with federalism, so they could rule either way. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 1:55 | comment | added | Mazura | Can Congress [pass legislation superseding (basically anything really, including] an overturned Supreme Court decision? - isn't that their job? | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 23:34 | comment | added | Davislor | @phoog Senator Lindsay Graham is one. He has already introduced such a bill. This is starting to veer off into hypotheticals. The point is, the Supreme Court might rule in favor of federalism on this issue. | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | phoog | @Davislor who in the Republican party is saying this, and why would anyone think that a majority of republicans would adopt such a policy or, more importantly, that 60 senators would agree on such a law? | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 18:42 | comment | added | Davislor | @phoog Both parties say that they’ll pass such a law at the first opportunity. | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 15:42 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 14:26 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 13:39 | comment | added | phoog | @Davislor but we are not likely to find out as it doesn't seem likely that such a law will be passed. | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 8:00 | comment | added | Davislor | Worth mentioning that this supreme Court majority has yet to rule on whether a given federal law about abortion would violate the Constitution. It is possible that they might. | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 21:27 | comment | added | phoog | @user6726 eight amendments explicitly grant to Congress the power to enforce their provisions by passing legislation, so the meaning of "enforce" is apparently broader than you think. | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 16:07 | answer | added | David Siegel | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 15:37 | comment | added | user6726 | Presumably, you know that the executive branch enforces laws and the legislative branch makes then, so you don't mean "enforce". | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 2:07 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 24, 2022 at 20:02 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 66 | |
| Sep 24, 2022 at 18:07 | history | asked | moonman239 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |