In an interview with USA TODAY on Friday afternoon, Dean stated, “Now, we have a 50-year return to the dark ages.” It has been an emotional mess.
The nation and Capitol Hill are in disarray following one of Washington’s most historic weeks, which included two significant Supreme Court decisions, the first significant gun deal in three decades, open-source investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising, and allegations of attempts to bribe the Justice Department.
This week has highlighted Donald Trump’s lasting influence and legacy on the nation by highlighting the polarization and divide that developed throughout his administration and after he was defeated in the election.
In Dean’s office, where some staff members sobbed over Roe being overturned, the impact of Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominees was obvious.
The 63-year-old Dean stated, “I’m a woman past the age of caring about having children. “But everyone on my team is young and wants independence. They do not want to hear from elderly, primarily white guys, that we will compel you to become pregnant.”
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After the House passed the gun safety bill on Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., greeted Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, on the left, while Rep.
Madeleine Dean, D-Penn, hugged Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., on the right. the AP’s J. Scott Applewhite
“Personal overburdened”
On Thursday evening, the Capitol was filled with happiness.
For the first time in over 30 years, senators passed a bipartisan gun legislation to loud applause. On the chamber floor, lawmakers who had been negotiating for nearly two months exchanged hugs and handshakes.
This was true even when the deal was about to fall through a week ago. Advocates for gun safety and people who have lost loved ones to gun violence grinned through tears as the legislation they’ve pleaded for, campaigned for, and called for finally passed the Senate, which is frequently deadlocked.
The atmosphere changed on Friday morning.
As senators prepared to start their two-week break with a nice feeling of cooperation, Dean and other members anticipated the happy scenario from Thursday night to repeat in the House.
Those hopes were swiftly abandoned in favour of misery.
The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said she was “personally overwhelmed” by the Roe ruling and began her weekly press conference with, “There’s no point in saying good morning because it clearly is not,” which is arguably the best way to describe the emotional whiplash.
There didn’t seem to be much of a struggle in the Capitol, but Democrats in Congress promised to fight “ferociously” to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land.
Instead, melancholy prevailed in the Capitol, as some staff members broke down in tears and expressed shock that the constitutional ban on abortion had been lifted.
Even if the decision to overturn 50 years of legal precedent had been anticipated since a May leak of a draught opinion, it was nonetheless significant when it was made by a conservative majority.
They weren’t the only ones, either.
The Roe decision is “inconsistent” with what Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh said during their Senate confirmation hearings, according to Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who cast a pivotal vote in confirming the justices who gave the Supreme Court a conservative majority.
She stated in a statement on Friday that “this decision is contrary to what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their hearing and meetings with me when they both were clear on the significance of preserving long-standing norms that the nation has relied upon.”
It is not conservative, she continued, to throw out a precedent that the nation has relied on for 50 years. Political upheaval, rage, and a further erosion of public trust in our government will result from this abrupt and drastic shock to the nation.
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Two Victories in One Story
Following the Roe ruling, Democrats and Republicans each claimed a separate victory.
Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House GOP, referred to the Roe ruling as “a win” because “the right to life has been upheld.”
Finally, he continued, “the voiceless have a voice.”
The Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett choices made by President Trump were engineered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who called the high court’s historic decision “courageous and proper.”
For the Constitution and the most vulnerable members of our society, he declared, “This is a historic win.”
While the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was being voted on Friday in the House Chamber in Washington, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, spoke with Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio.
The law, which was passed by Congress for the first time in more than 30 years with a vote of 234 to 193, was opposed by the congressmen.
Democrats were getting ready to declare victory over the gun legislation that the House approved on Friday and that President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law.
The Roe ruling, however, tempered that joy. Even the bill’s debate was altered by it.
Legislators utilised the time allotted for the House’s discussion of the gun bill to either denounce or support the Supreme Court’s decision.
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, a Republican from Wisconsin, stated before voting against the gun bill, “What a terrific day for the babies.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, said he found it challenging to ignore the decision.
This, according to Nadler, is “only the beginning of a dramatic, right-wing push to pull back other rights, including the right to contraception, the right to marry whoever we want, and the fundamental right to privacy,” as Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring decision.
After Roe v. Wade is overturned, Clarence Thomas urges the Supreme Court to “reconsider” homosexual marriage and contraception.
A Democracy in Peril
The heated arguments for abortion rights and gun rights were held against the backdrop of the Jan. 6 hearings, which included a Supreme Court decision earlier this week that made it easier to carry pistols.
This week’s themes centred on Trump’s pressure campaign against state officials, election workers, the Department of Justice, and five Congressmen who requested pardons.
The House committee’s chair, Bennie Thompson, stated that when hearings resume in July, “we’re going to show how Donald Trump tapped into the threat of violence, how he summoned the mob to Washington, and how after corruption and political pressure failed to keep Donald Trump in office, violence became the last option.”
Lawmakers have stated that they are worried about what might happen in the future in addition to what happened on January 6, 2021. They claimed that the republic’s future, as well as democracy itself, remained uncertain.
The stress and emotional roller coaster on Capitol Hill have increased as a result of the hearings.
As Collins pointed out in her statement following the Roe ruling, “At a time when the nation desperately needs stability, the Supreme Court has rejected a 50-year-old precedent.
This ill-advised move will further polarise the nation at a time when we need the Court to operate with consistency and caution more than ever in the contemporary era.”
Future Conflict
In reaction to the recent mass murders in Texas and New York, the House Judiciary Committee convened an emergency meeting on June 2 to promote a package of Democratic gun control legislation known as the Protecting Our Kids Act. the AP’s J. Scott Applewhite
The turmoil of emotions will still be present when lawmakers return to the Capitol after their two-week break over the Fourth of July holiday, Dean is aware.
More gun reform, which is already hopeless in the Senate, will be pushed by House Democrats.
Outstanding work is being done to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, there is a battle for abortion rights, and there is pressure to present achievements to voters before the November midterm elections.
After the Roe decision, House Republicans, who hope to regain control of their chamber this fall, have already decided to implement a 15-week abortion ban.
Dean has some faith that Congress would codify Roe because of the Supreme Court ruling and the bipartisan gun agreement.
Collins and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., among a handful of senators from both parties, have already stated they will support the passage of Roe v. Wade.
Dean will make an effort to keep his attention on the good till then. She is a Catholic, yet she holds fast to a passage of Jewish scripture that claims saving one life will save the entire cosmos.
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Dean replied, “I’ll take the good.” “This gun bill we passed is a historic first step,”
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