
CV NEWS FEED // Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, stated during a Monday MSNBC interview that if President Joe Biden is reelected and Democrats control both houses of Congress, the party will do away with the filibuster to pass a national pro-abortion law.
Hostess Katy Tur asked Pelosi: “If President Biden gets reelected and there’s a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, what can President Biden and the Democrats do to protect abortion nationwide?”
“Very clearly we can enshrine into the law Roe v. Wade,” replied the former speaker, a self-professed Catholic. “And that makes a big difference.”
Pelosi clarified that due to the filibuster, such a pro-abortion law would presently require 60 votes in the Senate to pass.
“If we [Democrats] win 50 plus one [seats] in the Senate, 50 plus the vice president, we can overturn the 60-vote rule, the filibuster, and pass it with a 51-vote margin,” she added. “And that’s what we need to do.”
She went on to slam the practice of the filibuster stating that the 60 Senate votes required to break it “is to empower 40% of the population over 60%.”
“You’re saying ‘tyranny of the minority?’” Tur asked.
“I’m not saying ‘tyranny,’ I’m just saying … if we [Democrats] have it within our power to change that let’s do it.”
“People have to view abortion as a democracy issue,” Pelosi told Tur, earlier in the interview. “It’s a freedom issue.”
She claimed that if former President Donald Trump is elected to a second non-consecutive term in November he would sign a “national abortion ban” into law – despite Trump’s own words to the contrary.
“That’s why we [Democrats] have to win it all,” the former speaker emphasized. “We have to win the White House with our … great President of the United States Joe Biden.”
Pelosi, 84, led the Democratic House Caucus for twenty years – from 2003 to 2023, when she was succeeded by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY. She served two stints as Speaker: from 2007 to 2011, and again from 2019 to 2023.
The controversial lawmaker has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987. She is running for re-election to her House seat this November.
