Congress passed gun control. Will it last?
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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Congress notched a major legislative win last week by passing gun control legislation. But will a recent Supreme Court ruling on a concealed-carry law blunt the victory?
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One day before Congress sent a landmark piece of gun legislation to President Biden’s desk, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on New York’s concealed-carry licenses that could weaken the law. Then, the morning of the bill’s passage, the Supreme Court announced another landmark decision, overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Leigh Ann Caldwell, anchor for Washington Post Live and the co-author of the Early 202 politics newsletter, joins us to talk about how those two rulings affected Congress. And she explains what’s in the new gun control bill that was signed by President Biden last week, and how Republicans in the Senate came on board for a genuinely bipartisan effort.
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| 0:00.0 | Leanne Coldwell can pinpoint the exact moment last week when the mood in Congress totally |
| 0:08.3 | transformed. |
| 0:09.8 | She was reporting from the US Capitol like she usually does. |
| 0:13.0 | I was talking to Democrats outside the House floor on Friday morning. |
| 0:19.2 | This was the Friday morning where they started the day really excited to be voting on this |
| 0:26.6 | gun legislation. |
| 0:28.5 | This was a landmark piece of legislation, the biggest federal gun control bill in this |
| 0:33.2 | country in decades. |
| 0:35.0 | The Senate had passed the bill by a wide margin the night before. |
| 0:38.8 | And now that they had the votes in the House, it was clear that this was about to become |
| 0:42.3 | law. |
| 0:43.3 | And the fact that it passed in a genuinely bipartisan way made it an even bigger deal. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Manus Fiegel. |
| 0:49.4 | Let me just say that this is a historic moment. |
| 0:52.1 | We are on the threshold of passing the first major overhaul over federal gun safety legislation |
| 0:58.8 | in decades. |
| 1:00.7 | But before they were able to vote on that bill, the Supreme Court came down with a decision |
| 1:06.6 | that overturned Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:11.5 | And for Democrats, this completely took the wind out of their sales. |
| 1:15.4 | They started the day thinking was going to be jubilant and excited was depressed and |
| 1:21.2 | devastated and furious and horrified. |
| 1:25.4 | I saw two members of Congress, two women members of Pennsylvania. |
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