in the Senate when Joe Manchin joined Republicans to filibuster it—is enacted,"we can expect that legal challenges will eventually come before the Supreme Court again," says the letter, co-signed by Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman , Marie Newman , Rashida Tlaib , Jamaal Bowman , Ilhan Omar , Mark Takano , Kai Kahele , and Cori Bush .
"The solution is to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing the constitutionality or legality of the WHPA, which can be done in the next version of the WHPA that we pass this term," wrote the lawmakers."Alongside the WHPA, similar provisions must be included in our bills that seek to codify Americans' fundamental rights to marriage equality, non-procreative intimacy, and contraception.
Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution establishes that the Supreme Court shall have"appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."