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Politics
Amanda Marcotte

The press grades Republicans on a curve

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

In response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the Democrat-controlled House has teed up twin bills, one to protect same-sex marriage and one to protect the right to contraception, out of concern that the conservative majority is coming for those rights next. It's a totally justified fear. In his concurrence on the Roe overturn, Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly called previous decisions to legalize contraception and same-sex marriage "demonstrably erroneous" and called on the court to "correct" those rights like they "corrected" the right to abortion. 

These two bills are almost certainly doomed to fail, because the Republican minority in Congress has a near-absolute power to kill bills through the abusing the filibuster. That's what happened when House Democrats tried to protect abortion rights. There's little reason to think Republicans have any more affection for the right to prevent pregnancy or allowing LGBTQ people to marry for love. 

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