On the recordMay 3, 2022
this is a dark and disturbing morning for America. Last night, a report disclosed that a conservative majority of the United States Supreme Court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade and uproot decades of precedent affirming a woman's right to an abortion. If this report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years--not just on women, but on all Americans. Under this decision, our children will have less rights than their parents. The Republican-appointed Justices' reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade will go down as an abomination--one of the worst, most damaging decisions in modern history. Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution, and defiled both precedence and the Supreme Court's reputation, all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they have relied on for over half a century. The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the Party of Trump. Every Republican Senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices, pretending that this day would never come, will now have to explain themselves to the American people. I will have more to say later this morning, but I want to make three things clear.…





