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CMUHoo

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I think your last sentence is where you're wrong


Yes, that wouldn't fly in Virginia, but Youngkin wants something tougher than 15 weeks and might get it if the GOP takes the state senate and keeps the house in 2023.

It might not fly in Florida either, but DeSantis' 15 week ban isn't going to last past spring 2023 if he's reelected either (the legislature is adjourned until after the election, conveniently). The legislature and activists are going to force him to veto something that is more stringent than 15 weeks and you know he won't do that with the presidential primary coming up.

Those are both purplish states though. How many states have freshly gerrymandered state legislatures that are safely red? The entire deep south. Texas. Indiana. Ohio. Arizona. Most of the plains states. The Democrats would have to simultaneously hold both houses of the legislatures and the governorship to change the laws. None of these states are going to be undoing their laws unless Congress, the Supreme Court or their state courts make them. Their power is too secure at the state level and they know it. That's about 20 states where whatever laws are passed will not be fixed by the party getting thrown out of power. It's far more likely that states ratchet rightward like Florida or Virginia might in the event they get a brief red triumvirate.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 07/14/2022 at 2:20PM



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