Why Democrats are not pursuing a constitutional amendment for abortion rights
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Democrats in the House and Senate are unlikely to pursue a constitutional amendment on abortion rights, and instead aim to pass bills on data protection, travel rights and more.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are plotting a legislative response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, but a constitutional amendment is unlikely to be pat of their plans. (Getty Images) Hundreds of people gathered outside the Supreme Court awaiting the Dobbs ruling. (Photo by Joshua Comins/Fox News) Tyler Olson covers politics for Fox News Digital. You can contact him at tyler.olson@fox.com and follow him on Twitter at @TylerOlson1791.
The process for a constitutional amendment is extremely arduous, and there is effectively no chance of an amendment enshrining abortion rights making it past any of the several steps involved. Wallner said even the decades-long process of changing the balance of the Supreme Court is easier.
"It's a lot easier to win an election, get a president in office, to nominate a judge, to get that judge on the bench, and then find sympathetic litigants to mount a case that goes through the federal court system, that ends up in the Supreme Court, and then they change the Constitution," he said.
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