That’s how I would like it. Remove the two-track rule that allows the Senate to do other business while the filibuster lies around in the background. That way, Schumer will have to read from Green Eggs and Gefilte Fish while other Dims will be singing Ramones Greatest Hits to stop Gorsuch from being confirmed.
In the meantime, the GOP can spread the news far and wide that this spectacle is happening because Gorsuch does not agree with the Dims all the time.
PING!
“Remove the two-track rule that allows the Senate to do other business while the filibuster lies around in the background.”
That’s the problem with a “filibuster” today: it just generally wastes time without real consequences, so can be continued indefinitely.
Aside from simply restoring the 50+% majority vote the Founding Fathers established for such things, at least make a filibuster a REAL filibuster, the kind that Alphonse D’Amato spectacularly held in his day. For something like 29 straight hours (no breaks!) he held Congress still, single-handedly, by not only pontificating at length about the long-forgotten subject, but by reading the phone book and by singing ad nauseum.
Bring on the spectacle!
Rule 19 would essentially do that, but with a pre-determined end to it.