President Joe Biden told a group of Democratic U.S. governors on Friday there were not enough votes in the Senate to scrap the filibuster to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court struck the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Biden has urged the Senate to consider getting rid of the filibuster — a supermajority rule that requires 60 of the 100 senators to agree on most legislation — to codify Roe v. Wade’s abortion rights protections into law.
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