President Biden promised to enshrine abortion access into law, if Democrats manage to expand majorities in Congress to pass such a bill first.
Biden also warned that the Dobbs ruling could empower Republicans to seek a rollback of civil liberties, including the right to same-sex marriage and contraception. In his concurrence to the Dobbs ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas invited legal challenges thatRight now, Democrats control both chambers of Congress, but their hold on the evenly divided Senate is especially tenuous, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the deciding vote.
Republicans are likely to win control of the House, while Democrats could, according to projections, manage to maintain control of the Senate. A divided Congress, with each party controlling one chamber, would almost certainly bring Biden’s legislative efforts to a complete halt, with Capitol Hill bound to descend into partisan trench warfare.
Democratic victories in November, Biden argued, would provide a necessary bulwark against the efforts of Republicans in Congress, as well as of the conservative judges who filled the ranks of the federal judiciary during the Trump administration. “I want you to remember that the final say does not rest in the court now. It does not rest with extremist Republicans in Congress,” he said.
The new Congress, the 118th, would be seated on Jan. 3, 2023, just days before the 50th anniversary of the Roe decision. “The first bill that I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade,” Biden vowed. “And when Congress passes it, I'll sign it in January, 50 years after Roe was first decided. And together, we'll restore the right to choose for every woman in every state in America.”Biden provided no specifics about his legislation.
Biden also vowed to enact an assault weapons ban, another progressive goal that would require an expansion of Democratic majorities in Capitol Hill. “I did it once. I’ll do it again,” he said in reference toOf course, neither restoring Roe nor instituting a new assault weapons ban will be possible if Republicans win in November, as Biden reminded Democrats on Tuesday.
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