Posted on 06/09/2022 4:42:20 PM PDT by lightman
President Joe Biden is considering issuing executive orders to blunt the effect of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling that may overturn Roe v. Wade.
Biden’s comments came during a taping of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on June 8. Kimmel, a comedian and left-wing activist who is an outspoken supporter of Obamacare, gave the president a softball interview that was punctuated with applause by the studio audience.
The face-to-face conversation was reportedly Biden’s first major media appearance since 118 days before, when he sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt on Feb. 10 before the Super Bowl.
The TV spot came five weeks after a leaked draft majority opinion indicated the Supreme Court was poised to reverse Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent that federalized abortion policy, overriding the states and making the procedure lawful throughout the entire United States. The draft opinion was from a pending case from Mississippi: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Biden told Kimmel that if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, “I think we have to legislate it. We have to make sure we pass legislation making it a law that is the federal government says, ‘This is how it works.’”
The abortion ruling is “just going to be the beginning,” Biden said, adding that the Supreme Court would then outlaw the use of contraception “because in the Constitution there was no right to privacy.”
“It’s just ridiculous in my view, and I don’t think the country will stand for it, but I think what we’re going to have to do, there’s some executive orders I could employ, we believe, we’re looking at that right now,” Biden said, without elaborating.
If Roe v. Wade is reversed “and these states impose the limitations they’re talking about, it’s going to cause a mini-revolution and they’re going to vote a lot of these folks out of office,” he said.
“We’ve got to keep it focused on–if they overrule Roe v. Wade and the state of California won’t do it, but other states say that you cannot do the following, and so as a law you can’t cross the border, you can’t–all the things that some states have, then you’ve got to make sure that you vote, you got to vote and let people know exactly what the devil you think and change it.”
Biden’s interview also came the same day a suspect was arrested for plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who, according to the leaked draft opinion, supports overturning Roe v. Wade, and a day after 25 Democratic U.S. senators wrote a letter (pdf) urging the president to “immediately issue an executive order directing the federal government to develop a national plan to defend Americans’ fundamental reproductive rights, including their right to an abortion.”
“The dramatic escalation of attacks on abortion access—spearheaded by right-wing justices, lawmakers, and activists—demands comprehensive and creative strategies from every corner of the federal government,” the letter states.
The senators encouraged Biden to increase access to medication-based abortions, use federal resources to increase access to abortions, provide resources for individuals seeking abortions in other states, and clarify protections for sensitive health data.
Among those signing the letter were Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Dianne Feinstein of California, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to release opinions in pending cases on June 13 and 15. It’s unclear which opinions will be made public. Activists are planning to blockade the Supreme Court building on June 13 in hopes of preventing the court from functioning, as The Epoch Times has reported.
If he pulls this one off I suspect that he will, after a second or third one such, repeal the 22d Amendment by decree.
The EO has surely been highly abused by this autocrat, but the idea of the EO is necessary. It is based on the principle that if the president is to “faithfully execute the law,” he needs the authority to order things done— those things which are implied but not fully specified in duly passed law.
His people are looking at it, he said.
We will see..
The founding fathers were correct. Our form of government would only survive if men were moral. It’s been a nice ride. Just sorry that I’m living through and witnessing our nation’s demise.
The Democrats beloved “right of privacy” starts at the belting and ends at the upper thigh. It protects sexual behavior but practically nothing else.
I don’t think federal ‘legislation’ can counter the USSC supposed decision to overturn either. You’d have to amend the constitution. As we all know that is a difficult and lengthy process. Either that or the Left assassinates a justice or 2 and their replacements discover another penumbra emanating from somewhere or other.
Just as he’s withholding lunch money from schools that don’t teach LGBTQ-Transgenderism, he’ll withhold medicare & medicaid from hospitals that don’t provide abortion. Otherwise, I can’t think of what else he can do from an EO standpoint.
EOs, what a joke. He’s just trying to give his band of pro-baby killing commies something to hope for. He cant sign all the EOs he wants but nothing going to stand. The SCOTUS looks like it’s going to say Roe v Wade is unconstitutional and is a state issue. Feds, butt out.
Illegal and otherwise improper “executive orders” without merit are to be ignored. There is no such things as executive orders that create law. If people don’t ignore them, they should be held just as liable, and I’d argue even more so, than the mentally I’ll person making them.
I THINK he is thinking, along with his marxist buddies, that he can build, occupy and operate abortion clinics on federal property in the various RED states.
In Texas, about 5 minutes after construction workers drove the first stake in the ground, Paxton would have an injunction filed.
So, it’s another feel good, self loathing DREAM of the MARXIST democrats.
Obama isn’t running anything either.
He’s yet another sock puppet.
Gotta go deeper...
Joey the pedophile clown now believes he is God.
This man can't be serious.
Oh, wait. It's just you know, you know the thing. Never mind.
Joey believe he is a messiah....from the dark side.
A exec order and $20 will get you a tall at Starbucks..
F Starbucks and Brandon and the ass he rode on!
Does this stupid ARSEHOLE know that if Roe is “overturned” it means:
THAT ABORTION WILL STILL BE LEGAL IN MANY STATES.
Pedo Joe thinks he will have to ...COME TO THE RESCUE...and issue Exec orders.
That will not be necessary, you LUNATIC.
They still will be able to kill their babies.
Pedo Xoe hasn’t figured out that girl babies are more likely to be aborted than boy babies.
Ergo, if he’d like a good supply of little girls’ hair to fondle and sniff....
“...the Supreme Court would then outlaw the use of contraception”
What a freaking idiot. Is he saying contraception kills babies?
EEEEUUUUUUUU!
YEAH, my daughter told me all/most babies start out as girls.
I didn’t know that.
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