[general_re]

It seems likely to me that they were simply unable to pass a bill that mandated relief - it seems clear from the legislative record that Levin et al were prepared to obstruct a bill that mandated relief. And so they shot out a bill with no mandatory relief, when they reasonably should have known the buzzsaw waiting for it. I find no angels on either side of the aisle - the Republicans could have objected more vociferously than they did, could have fought harder for statutory relief by making it clear that anything else was rolling the dice with this woman's life, but they didn't do any of that. They just hung this POS out there on a wing and a prayer, and ran into a judge who followed established procedure for relief, the results of which were eminently predictable.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

With time having run out the Republicans took what they could get. The court came out one way by abusing its discretion against existing law. A majority, but not a sufficient majority to get past procedural hurdles, wanted to correct the court. So there was no choice but to pass a swiss cheese bill and hope it influenced the courts, which it did not. The executive has been the obsequious boot-licker of the courts for so long (since sometime between Andrew Jackson telling the court to stick in 1832 and Dred Scot in 1857 at least) that 90% of the people think it's supposed to be.