Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal perfectly demonstrates the shamelessness of those who support ending the filibuster.
Democrats will live to regret doing this if they have the votes to do it.
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Democrats aren't really this short-sighted, are they?
Democrats love to blame their troubles on Senate rules. They should look in the mirror instead.
Some liberal political analysts are warning that Republicans will gain a big Senate majority over the next two elections.
Not by changing the filibuster rules, but by stressing them.
Both parties want to kill the filibuster when they are in the majority, and that's exactly why it needs to stick around.
Senate Democrats should avoid taking the easy, undemocratic way out.
If Democrats' voting rights bills are blocked, Biden says, "we have no choice but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster."
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
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A new report says many democracies have taken steps that are "disproportionate, unnecessary, or illegal" to curb COVID.
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Dean Chemerinsky has argued for and against the filibuster on both constitutional and policy grounds.
Some academics are urging VP Harris to declare the filibuster unconstitutional
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is right: Democrats have more to lose by ending the filibuster than by putting up with it.
Even Joe Biden and Barack Obama were willing to acknowledge this basic fact just a few years ago.
Are Mitch McConnell's threats credible, or is he a paper tiger?
But the real reason why Democrats should abandon the effort to hike the federal minimum wage has nothing to do with arcane Senate rules or the filibuster.
Abolishing the filibuster will make it even harder for the Senate to function.
The filibuster is not inherently a tool of oppression simply because segregationist politicians in the 1950s and '60s found it useful.
Progressives are promising to get rid of this long-standing check on the power of raw majorities in the Senate just when it would help them the most.
Politicians' opinions about the maneuver depend on which party is in power.
For partisans of limited government, this would be terrible news.
Senator holds back his desire to use profanity in describing the super-spendy bill.
Another sign of the end times or a renewal of constitutional governance?
Serious political movements shouldn't try to knock down all the barriers to power whenever they temporarily enjoy it.
Next thing you know we could be deciding all sorts of things by majority vote.
Until it kept them from getting what they wanted
Changes today do not include Supreme Court nominations
Wendy Davis' Gubernatorial Run in Texas is an early test
Sen. Ted Cruz says he will try
Trying to end filibuster for executive branch nominees
He wants to override the filibuster, and that's a dangerous move.
Planning to nominate three judges for The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
