According to her prepared remarks, she will say that “the filibuster was used as a tool to block progress on racial justice.” …
Very true. Her fellow Democrats of that day, used the filibuster to block civil rights legislation.
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A few have called for us not to use the nuclear option because it will be used against us
that’s like saying don’t fire upon the enemy because they will fire back.
The filibuster or “filibuster” was set on a course to be ended altogether when the Democrats used their “nuclear option” to confirm their judges. Republicans came back to power in the Senate and continued the Democrat measure which upset Democrats, of course, and made it inevitable that they would end it for everything once they got majority status in the Senate again. The filibuster is the last vcharacteristic that makes the Senate different from the House other than length of term.
The so-called “filibuster” rule is technically “cloture.”
“Cloture” is intended to give the minority a chance to argue their point to the body.
The US Senate is a dysfunctional body, and abuses the cloture mechanism so the body works on a minority veto principle.
Individual senators like this dysfunction, they like minority veto, in fact, they’d like to each have a personal veto, like judges do. They used to have individual/personal veto against judicial confirmations, the “blue slip” rule.
The stupid but patient and roughly gutless public puts up with the US government stepping all over the constitution. Senate dysfunction is merely an amusing sideline.