Posted on 03/24/2021 7:43:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Democrats are using the mass shooting in Colorado on Monday to renew their push to eliminate the filibuster and pass new gun control legislation.
Prominent Democrats said the Senate must eliminate the filibuster in order to push through new gun control laws in response to the killings. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.), Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate John Fetterman, and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Malcolm Kenyatta all called for the filibuster to end in the wake of Monday's attack.
"Things won't get better until Democrats get rid of the filibuster and finally pass gun safety legislation that a huge majority of Americans support," Warren wrote on Twitter. "What are we waiting for – another tragedy?"
On Monday, a man who has been identified by police as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa began shooting people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. He murdered nine customers and Boulder police officer Eric Talley before surrendering to authorities. He was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday.
Warren and the other Democrats argued that Alissa's attack justifies getting rid of the filibuster. They said it is impossible to get the 10 Republican votes needed to pass new gun restrictions under the current rules. Instead, they want the rules thrown out so that they can pass such measures as background check expansion and gun bans without the need for any Republican support at all.
President Biden also pressured Congress to pass new gun control legislation on Tuesday during a public address in reaction to the Boulder killings. He called on the Senate to pass the two gun control bills that cleared the House in early March and to implement one of his key campaign promises, a ban on popular firearms like the AR-15.
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I’m only good with returning it to a talking filibuster, subject to override by a 2/3 vote. Going the Manchin/Biden route of simply making it a talking filibuster, with the usual 3/5 override, is simply a form of weakening or elimination.
There won’t be enough soldiers and police to pull that off completely before people start banding together and fighting back.
I've been saying the same thing for some time. Think clandestine. Think Swamp Rats.
We thought President Trump got a lot done in four short years?
These jackals are working overtime to undo any GOOD he did for, ‘We The People.’
How I loathe them!
“Next thing you know, we’ll be quartering soldiers!”
Don’t give the Socialist Democrats any ideas!!
...and by strike, I mean we should form a picket line, like a striking union.
Of course.
Democrats promise you apples but give you worms.
Or how long the people of West Virginia will tolerate it if Joe Manchin goes back on his promise to keep the filibuster in tact.
So, does it take 51 votes to end a 60 vote filibuster?
They don’t plan on having us quartering soldiers... they want us quartering illegals.
OMG! You are absolutely RIGHT! :(
Originally, Senate rules were changed by a 2/3 vote, the reason being that only 1/2 of Senate seats were up for election every 2 years. Then, the hideous, obstructive Dumb-Dumb-O-Crat filibusters of the Bush years (led by Tom Daschle, then Harry Reid) happened. So the then-GOP-led Senate speculated on eliminating the filibuster for judicial appointees by a simple majority, but never went through with it.
FF to 2013, when Harry Reid used a simply majority vote to nuke the filibuster for judicial and administration nominees. That situation, along with nuking it for SCOTUS appointments, presumably by simple majorities, was also used to great effect by the GOP Senate after Trump was elected. So here we are, and yes, if it’s eliminated for good, it will be by a simple majority, IMO.
Amen. Roger that!!
You can always invite your local Democrat to go see the bear feeding.
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