Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Okay, yes, police are currently in the process of violently stomping out political dissent on university campuses across America following multiple statements from President Biden attacking the protesters as “antisemitic” for opposing the genocide he’s been enthusiastically facilitating in Gaza. And okay, fine,
Biden claims that he wants to, but unless Dems hold the senate and take the house, there’s no way in hell that’s happening. Even if they did, they’re have to end the filibuster, which I think is probably not a good idea. And I don’t think that a law would hold up to SCOTUS as it is now, because ‘muh state’s rights’. And honestly, even if it had been federal law for decades, this SCOTUS still would have thrown it out, because Trump packed the court with three batshit crazy conservatives.
Yes it is critical that we allow a senate rule that was invented to keep slavery from being outlawed around. There is no possible way that we could make specific laws that were immune to the filibuster, or simply reinstate the filibuster after passing laws codifying existing SCOTUS rulings. The most important aspect of government is that good things can never override the status quo, only bad things get to do that.
The point of the filibuster is that you don’t want the majority to trample the rights of the minority. Imagine what happens when the Senate has a simple majority of Republicans again. And it’s pretty likely, since Manchin is retiring (WV is very, very solidly red; there’s functionally zero chance that Dems will keep that seat), and both Ossof and Warnock will have a serious uphill fight to retain their seats in the coming years; the only reason Warnock won the last time is because Republicans were convinced the election was rigged, and didn’t show up. (So, I guess that’s one thing Trump did right…?)
Republicans took the House, barely, in '22. If Trump wins this year, then the odds are pretty good that Republicans will retain the House and take the Senate. A filibuster is a check on that, unless the senate majority throws it out, and so far Republicans haven’t been willing to completely gut it. So far. If Dems choose to do that–and they don’t have the votes to do so–they’d be shooting themselves in the foot for when they lose the Senate again. If anything, Dems should be strengthening the filibuster, albeit going back to the old rules where you actually had to stand up and talk the whole time.
The Dems have never used the filibuster to block Republican legislative initiatives. It’s only been used to stop things like the Civil Rights act, and ensure that massive government handouts are given to well-connected contractors.
You need to intenalize the purpose of the filibuster, it’s not to stop “the majority to trample the rights of the minority,” or whatever idealic thing you’ve fixated on.
Here is something to chew on:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/05/politics/filibuster-senate-explained/
That is an absolutely, 100% false claim. (And, if you want to check the source, Repustar is the single largest contributor, and they have a very high reputation for being factual.) Both Democratic and Republican minorities have made quite liberal use of the filibuster to block legislation that they couldn’t directly vote down.
There are literally no sources there. Give me the senate records that show the dems did it. There should be bills that came up for the passing and the outcome of those bills. I see nothing there. That websites source is “trust me bro.” Also you then cite mediabias fact check to fact check the source that of the filibuster claim.
Bills don’t come up for a vote if they’re filibustered. They leave committee, and then there’s debate. You need 60 votes–cloture–to end debate and bring a bill up for a floor vote. If either party leader has indicated that their party intend to filibuster a bill, then the bill never even comes up, because you’re not going to be able to end debate and take it up for a vote. If you want to see what was filibustered over the years, your best bet is going to be looking at what got referred out of committee, and then never got voted on in the first place.
If you want to do that kind of legwork, be my guest.
Are you saying that mediabiasfactcheck is unreliable? That’s a bold move there.