Biden’s Call to Kill Filibuster For Roe Fails

After President Biden said he supports eliminating the legislative filibuster in the Senate to codify federal abortion rights, moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are standing their ground in opposition to changes to the filibuster.Filibuster rule changes would require the support of all Democrats in the 50–50 Senate.
“I believe we codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure Congress votes to do that,” Biden said on Thursday in Madrid. “And if the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights, it should be — we provide an exception for this. We require an exception to the filibuster for this action.” 
Democratic leaders have renewed their call to codify abortion rights into federal law since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Biden for announcing his support for reversing the Supreme Court’s decision by codifying Roe v. Wade …