Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who has been lobbying senators to vote for a bill codifying same-sex marriage, said she believes she will be able to find the 10 GOP votes needed for the bill to overcome the filibuster in the evenly-divided Senate.
GOP go ahead and vote against that too, You have already shit on women and veterans, might as well add gay people too. What have you got to lose???
Let me be the âfirstâ to say:
Fuck Susan Collins.
But sheâs very concerned. She said so.
The Respect for Marriage Act would repeal the Defense of Marriage ActâŚ
Baldwin noted that five Republicans have already publicly stated their support for it, before saying that she has spoken with five additional GOP senators who indicated they are âleaning in support.â
Whatâs the over/under on 60 votes?
Iâm inclined to think Baldwin will find four more, for 59, with the rest of the reactionary caucus allowing the issue to be decided by their SCOTUS.
That way, they hope to avoid any electoral liability for pandering to the most extreme elements in their party.
Convincing the American Taliban is no easy feat but I give Tammy a huge amount of credit! Her being a WI Senator juxtaposed with Ron Johnson is unreal. Actually, it is all too realâŚ
Baldwin Thinks She Can Find 10 GOP Votes For Same-Sex Marriage
Good luck with that. Like abortion, GOP senatorsâ personal plans for same sex marriage involve flying to a state where it is legal.
Note that âpersonal plansâ also applies to their extended families.
Thanks for the article. It prompted me to call Capitoâs officeâŚagain
She might. This might be a case of timing-- after the whiplash vote against Vets Healthcare.
There may be some Rs who see this as a manner to regain recently lost support.
Best of, to your efforts Sen Baldwin.
Devilâs in the details. As far as Iâm tracking, this bill only provides grandfathering of current marriages, no requirement that any given state not go ahead and try a law to ban new ones and fast-track to the supremes to overturn obergefell.
So they can âsupportâ today and do Collinsâ eyebrows when new marriages start getting banned.
âThe bill would require the federal government to recognize interracial and same-sex marriages.â
Sweet Moses on a hoverboard!
In 2022, the United States STILL doesnât officially recognize interracial marriage?
(If thatâs true, then the lede has definitely been buried.)
Nope
Theyâre still mad that âHillbilly Joeâ turned heel. Add to it Sinema uncertainty and there ait no way that 10 of em are voting for this measure.
Just me, but Iâm wondering if Murkowski will vote for it.
Yeah, I have advised some that if they wish to get married they should do it now, because when the christofascists ban it, it will be more politically palatable to ban future marriage than to try to annul existing ones.
itâs a SLippery sloPe frOM blacks to PIZZA by waY of Gays ANd dogs.
The only official recognition is two Supreme Court decisions. United States v. Windsor struck down DOMAâs definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman and Obergefell v. Hodges struck down the section of DOMA that allowed individual states to not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
Neither decision is âdeeply rooted in the nationâs history and traditionsâ and stare decisis is no longer relevant, so as CJ Roberts would say, itâs up to Congress to fix the problem the Court is poised to create.
Itâs a rarity that any D-Senator publicly expresses the possibility.
Know I wouldnât unless Iâd done the footwork.
Still good to protect yesterdayâs loaf from being thrown in the trash, even if it doesnât guarantee tomorrowâs loaf will get baked.
Though it also guarantees that if you get a loaf shipped in from another state, the bakery has to accept it for you (to completely torture the metaphor).
She can do the footwork and maybe a miracle happens, but Republicans thought Sinema and Manchin were on their side.
I canât see 10 Senators.