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Given that every Republican was against codification, it only takes having a few Democrats against it to block such a move. Even as a majority of Democrats were in favor, at no time was a majority of the Senate
Then you make them vote and you primary the fuck out of them.
Funny how everyone in the senate seems to forget how to politic when it suits them.
Oh stop making excuses for the Jim Crow Filibuster.
Democrats had the seats and just enough no votes. Because they ALWAYS find the no votes.
Children being forced to carry rapists' offspring to term was the price that they were delighted to pay to keep their procedural excuse for inaction.
I'm not "making execuses" for it — I'm pointing out the reality that the votes to end it haven't been there, and how that happened.
We gave Democrats the means to codify Roe.
They chose to save the filibuster instead. They always do and always will.
You're lumping the whole group together, which isn't a good way to describe what happened when 50 Republicans wanted to block and somewhere around 3-5 Democrats out of 50 wanted to.
Democrats expect greater lockstep than that from their voters.
So you're mostly interested in trolling and blaming Democrats as a group rather than electing enough willing Democrats to actually change things.
I'm done being lied to. There is no amount of Democrats that will change things. There are always just enough turncoats.
People said that repeatedly about climate. Then we passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
Well, it's completely inadequate to the task at hand, so I fully expect centrists to coast on it forever like they did with the ACA.
We know it's not enough; but it's a large part of what we need. And that we got the the point of having enough votes is a big deal.
It didn't happen instantly though; we got steadly increasing numbers of votes over a several decade period, including examples where votes weren't held there wouldn't be enough to act.
It's not even a small part, and it's the only part we're gonna get for decades, because Democrats love to coast on half-measures.
What we get is going to depend on who we elect. We can vote for more and better Democrats...or choose to elect people who want to maximize environmental damage.
We can vote for more. The party opposes better more stridently than it opposes Republicans.
"the party" is elected too. You can change it much as a bunch of Sanders supporters went and got rules changed to make it easier to launch primary challenges.
And just look at how much easier that became.
Oh yeah, it fucking didn't.