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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested that Congress should use a
variety of methods to limit the power of the Supreme Court.

In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, the New York Democrat argued that the Supreme
Court was compromising its own legitimacy and that she believes Congress must
act to limit its power.

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"I truly do," Ocasio-Cortez answered when asked if she believes the power of the
Supreme Court justices should be limited. "And this is not a new — this is not a
new development in history. This is part of our system of checks and balances.
The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without
any balance on their power, it would be a dangerous, authoritarian expansion of
power in the Supreme Court."



The New York Democrat then said that Congress should use every tool at its
disposal against the Supreme Court, including investigations, subpoenas, and
impeachments.

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"We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach, and abuse of
power, and the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight
necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And
in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the
court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy."

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Original Author: Brady Knox

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — It’s been a week full of milestones related to abortion
in North Carolina.

The one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade came
exactly one week before new state laws take effect that ban most abortions after
12 weeks.

Vice President Kamala Harris marked the first of those two important dates with
a visit to the state, and during her speech she brought up a big number.

THE CLAIM: “Right now, in our country, 23 million women of reproductive age live
in a state with an extreme abortion ban in effect. Twenty-three million women.
Which means right now, in our country, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in
a state with a ban,” Harris said during her speech June 24 in Charlotte.

THE FACTS: That number also shows up in a fact sheet distributed by the White
House the day before the vice president’s speech. It says those women live in
the 18 states with an abortion ban in effect.

A similar, older version of that stat appeared in a report in October 2022 from
the Guttmacher Institute.

It found 15 states at that time that were enforcing bans and says they are home
to nearly 22 million women of reproductive age — which it defines as being
between the ages of 15 and 49.




It says they add up to nearly one-third of American women of reproductive age.



U.S. Census Bureau projections for 2022 show those 15 states — plus Nebraska and
North Dakota, which passed abortion restrictions in 2023 — have a total of 22.7
million women between those ages.

During her speech, Harris listed some of those states — Arizona, Georgia, Texas
and Wisconsin — but also brought up Florida, which was not among the states on
the Guttmacher list.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that would ban most abortions after six
weeks, but it is on hold while the state Supreme Court rules on the 15-week ban
that DeSantis signed last year.

There are about 4.7 million women in Florida in that age group, and factoring
them in would have pushed the total well past the 23 million cited by Harris —
and up to 27.3 million.

So, how will the restrictions that take effect Saturday in North Carolina affect
those numbers?

The law bars most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy after the
Republican-controlled General Assembly last month overrode a veto by Democratic
Gov. Roy Cooper.

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The census figures show 2.4 million women in North Carolina in that age bracket.
Once they are added to the running total, it would grow past 25 million. And
those states would account for more than a third of all U.S. women between those
ages.

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