If the filibuster can’t be done away with or turned into a “Jimmy Stewart filibuster,” then Congress has the obligation to Act on the “Nuclear Option” By Thom Hartmann Reprinted by permission of the author The US Senate is back in session this week, as Texas Republicans prepare to pass another massive voter suppression bill….
“By ERWIN CHEMERINSKY AND BURT NEUBORNE MARCH 22, 2021 3:15 AM PT “There is a clear next step in changing the Senate filibuster: Vice President Kamala Harris, as presiding officer of the Senate, can — and should — declare the current Senate filibuster rule unconstitutional. This would open the door for discussions on a new…
It’s fair to say that the filibuster, a relic of the Jim Crow era, has allowed the GOP under Mitch McConnell to turn the Senate into the graveyard of all good legislation. Under this system, the next good legislation to die there will be H.R.1 (“For the People Act of 2021“), “the most sweeping…
Here is a single line from historian Heather Cox Richardson‘s dispatch (“Letters from an American“) summarizing today’s most important events: “Among the things Georgia wants to outlaw is giving water to voters as they wait for hours in line to get to the polls.” If you are not yet getting her free daily digest,…