What most people don’t understand is that the filibuster is an abomination that was created by accident. Once it was discovered, it was used for a century to undermine all civil rights legislation. The Senate loved this because the secretly racist Senators could rely on the openly racist ones to target bills they didn’t really want to support anyway.
Over time they strengthened the filibuster while also making it easier to deploy. At this point all that is needed to have a filibuster is for a staffer to email intent of the filibuster in order for it to be in effect. What typically happens is the filibustering party will email the intent to filibuster on a Friday and then everyone who doesn’t support the bill goes home for the weekend and the bill dies.
A super majority requirement in the Senate was never the founders intent. They had tried the super majority requirement in the articles of confederation and it was an abysmal failure.
The filibuster is a tool of oppression and gridlock, and should be abolished.
What most people don’t understand is that the filibuster is an abomination that was created by accident. Once it was discovered, it was used for a century to undermine all civil rights legislation. The Senate loved this because the secretly racist Senators could rely on the openly racist ones to target bills they didn’t really want to support anyway.
Over time they strengthened the filibuster while also making it easier to deploy. At this point all that is needed to have a filibuster is for a staffer to email intent of the filibuster in order for it to be in effect. What typically happens is the filibustering party will email the intent to filibuster on a Friday and then everyone who doesn’t support the bill goes home for the weekend and the bill dies.
A super majority requirement in the Senate was never the founders intent. They had tried the super majority requirement in the articles of confederation and it was an abysmal failure.
The filibuster is a tool of oppression and gridlock, and should be abolished.