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Joe Biden at a meeting with governors: "I share the public outrage at this extremist court"
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US President Joe Biden has again attacked the US Supreme Court with harsh words after its decision on abortion rights.
"I share the public outrage at this extremist court," Biden said at a meeting with governors on Friday.
The court wants to take America back in time and curtail rights.
Under ex-President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court has moved far to the right.
Biden also indicated that before the congressional elections in the fall he sees no way to suspend an age-old rule in the Senate to legislate for a nationwide abortion right in the United States.
"We don't have the votes in the Senate right now," he said.
He hopes that will change after the elections in November.
Biden's Democrats currently only have a wafer-thin majority in the Senate.
They control 50 seats, i.e. exactly half - and are therefore regularly slowed down by the so-called filibuster.
The filibuster is a more than 100-year-old regulation that states that for many bills, 60 of the 100 senators must agree to an end to the debate before there can even be a vote in the congressional chamber.
Backward decisions
However, not all Democrats are behind a suspension of the filibuster.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have previously opposed it.
Biden has now warned that Republicans may get enough spirit in the fall to push legislation through Congress banning abortion nationwide.
The Supreme Court overturned abortion rights last week, arguing it was unconstitutional.
Since there is no statewide law protecting the right, the legislature now rests with the states.
The court also significantly slowed down Biden's climate agenda with a decision on Thursday.
In the coming session, it will be hearing, among other things, a case on electoral law that could have significant consequences for the 2024 presidential election.
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