A group of House Democrats has joined together in a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to support an effort to block the Supreme Court from scrutinizing the constitutionality of the Women's Health Protection Act, a piece of pro-choice legislation. They want to block the high court from scrutinizing their plans on other issues as well.
"We write to urge your support for restricting the Supreme Court's appellate jurisidiction in the areas of abortion, marriage equality, non-procreative intimacy, and contraception," the liberal lawmakers wrote. "In doing so, we can ensure that, as Congress takes legislative action to codify each of these fundamental rights, a radical, restless, and newly constituted majority on the Court cannot further undermine the protections we would enact."
Leftists have been up in arms about about the Supreme Court decision issued last month that enabled states to ban abortions. Liberals were also disturbed by Justice Clarence Thomas's concurrence in which he suggested that the high court should eventually strike down other decisions including the Obergefell v. Hodges gay marriage ruling.
