Has Biden reached a 'break-glass moment' on Supreme Court expansion after Texas abortion case?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden faces increased pressure from abortion rights groups to support expanding the size of the Supreme Court and federal legislation to ensure abortion access after the conservative-controlled court allowed a controversial Texas law to take effect this week.

The Texas law prohibits abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected, roughly six weeks into a pregnancy. Advocates say it represents the most expansive state-level restriction to abortion access since the procedure was legalized by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

In a statement, Biden hammered the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on the Texas law, a move he said “unleashes constitutional chaos.” He promised a “whole-of-government” response to what he called an “unprecedented assault” on women’s rights.

But abortion rights activists say Biden needs to go further and back institutional changes to the Senate and Supreme Court, while also making greater use of the presidential bully pulpit, to protect abortion access. And they say doing so will become increasingly urgent as other GOP-controlled state legislatures are expected to introduce measures similar to the Texas law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/has-biden-reached-a-break-glass-moment-on-supreme-court-expansion-after-texas-abortion-case/ar-AAO4ZrO

[KPN]

1. Hope so. How can anyone question the need for unusual action in this drastically unusual time?

We didn't get here by routine happenstance. We got here via long-duration, concerted aggressive actions by a now rabid GOP/GQP. What they did to get here was not typical or common. To the contrary, it was unusual -- not the common course, discourse or behavior.. Fight fire with fire or perish. That's our choice.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Well stated.

[MsLeopard]

3. Absolutely

It’s in times of great need when these actins are taken. That time is now. I hope, as a 71 year old healthy woman, that I get to see it happen. It’s long past time after 40 years of neoliberal policies that have stacked the court beyond all that was thought possible before the right wing/billionaire takeover of our nation.