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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Bowden

‘Reform the filibuster’ and codify abortion rights, Tim Ryan urges Senate after Roe struck down

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The Democratic congressman running in one of the most significant races of the 2022 election cycle had a message for the US Senate after the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday: The filibuster must bend, or break.

Tim Ryan, a centrist from Ohio running to replace retiring Republican Sen Rob Portman, was one of a few Democratic members of Congress to walk down to the Court on Friday after the news of Roe’s overturn was made public, and showed none of the hesitance towards changes to Senate rules that some centre-leaning pols including Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have shown even in the face of the most dramatic rollback of rights in the US in decades.

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