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Can the houses or the president intervene in state law? Genuine question. I had assumed only the judiciary could.
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Not directly, no.
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Federal law overrides state law? Pass a federal abortion rights guarantee - codify roe vs Wade into federal law. Of course, they’d need to abolish the filibuster to get something like that through the senate, and they are spineless in the face of Republican radicalism, so guess the women of Texas (and every other Republican state that is about to follow suit if they haven’t already) are just going to have to suck it up.
Other option is expand the Supreme Court, but again, see above.
Eseman
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Well abortion is not only now illegal in Texas, but random citizens can net themselves a $10,000 bounty by suing anyone who is involved in an abortion in the state.
If only the democrats had some kind of majority in both houses and control of the presidency, maybe they might be able to do something about this.