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There is no legal requirement for a 60% supermajority to pass anything in the Senate; it’s just a Senate rule. The filibuster has been modified before, and coul
by krallja 4y ago
There is no legal requirement for a 60% supermajority to pass anything in the Senate; it’s just a Senate rule. The filibuster has been modified before, and could be modified at any point in the future. I personally am a fan of leaving it, but you HAVE TO TALK. If you stop talking, you yield. If you want to grind up the gears of Congress, you have to actually do something.
- School-Cotton 4y ago> I personally am a fan of leaving it Why?
- krallja 4y agoIt’s a check on populism. Also, changing the rule slowly seems more likely to have good outcomes than removing the rule altogether.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThe US is already way overburdened with "checks on populism" relative to other democracies: the bicameral legislature, the state/federal power sharing, the strong, independent judiciary interpreting a written constitution...