Protesters outside the Supreme Court should fill the streets after the high court legalized abortion nationwide.
The effort to protect women's reproductive rights isn't going to be solved in a day or a year, according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
"We have to fill the roads," she said. Elections are not enough right now.
Showing up at the ballot box is the bare minimum according to the New York Democrat.
If at least 3.5% of the population participates in peaceful protests in an active and sustained way, it can be used to foment political changes. Approximately 11 million people are in the US.
The 3.5% rule is useful in understanding the degree to which people have built such popular, broad-based legitimacy that they can pull that number of people out. In order for change to occur there have to be defections among prominent people in the opposition.
"Movements don't just win because they have a mass uprising, but also that multiyear strategy where it's building capacity to create defections, either through persuasion or imposing direct costs on loyalists." "It's not that everyone is suddenly like, 'Oh, there's so many people in the street, we really believe what they stand for now!'"
One of the most influential progressives in Congress delivered a speech on Friday. The US is now under minority rule, she said.
"We are talking about a court with the majority of justices appointed by a party that has not won a popular presidential election more than once in three decades, ruling against the majority of Americans," she said.
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In a majority opinion delivered by Justice Samuel Alito, along with his conservative colleagues, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy ConeyBarrett, the court overruled the abortion law.
Conservatives make up six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court. Both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush won the popular vote. Winning the Electoral College vote is the most important thing in a presidential election. It is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556
According to recent polling, a majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. Ensuring the nation's laws don't violate the Constitution is one of the duties of the Supreme Court. Conservative justices of the Supreme Court have been accused of injecting their religious beliefs into their interpretation of the nation's founding document by critics of the decision to legalized abortion.
"We woke up with less rights than we had yesterday," she said. Every single one of us is at risk.
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