Trump gets convicted in NY and then in DC.
Trump finally blows a head gasket and goes totally apeshit. He tells his hogs to vote for him and only for him because republicans aren't "loyal" to him. Nobody can figure out what he means exactly and he only vomits up word salad about it when asked.
Biden wins, the dems take the house, and they increase their lead in the senate by a few votes. Libs praise Biden for winning and voters for showing up for democracy. In truth many races were razor thin and there's a one word reason the dems did as well as they did. And that's the unsurprising word "Trump".
Biden promises to codify Roe but he says "We've got a lot of other work to do." He keeps promising to codify Roe. And he promises again. And again. And yet again. he says "Hold your horses!"
Finally Biden makes vague promises that the dems might kinda-sorta codify Roe in early-mid 2022 so "voters remember who to vote for".
It's 5 months before the election and the senate votes on a Roe law. It's expected to pass but it fails 49-51. An elderly senator had fallen and broke their hip. They promised to still make it in person to vote. Alas - due to medical complications because they are older than fuck they had to stay in the hospital.
Biden then tells the nation "There's not enough time for a new vote. Look, we had a setback. A serious setback. But setback's happen. The next opportunity is after the election. So - you know what that means! What you gotta do is vote!..."

[–] regul@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Not even that. They won't even try to advance legislation because they'll say any law they pass would be killed by SCOTUS.