For Democracy to Stay, the Filibuster Must Go

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Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1. The bill, a similar version of which the House passed in 2019, is a comprehensive and desperately needed set of reforms that would strengthen voting rights and election security, ban partisan gerrymandering, reduce big money in politics and establish ethics codes for Supreme Court justices, the president and other executive branch officials.

The legislation has the support of at least 50 senators, plus the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden is on board and ready to sign it. So what’s the problem? Majority support in the Senate isn’t enough. In the upper chamber, a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass even the most middling piece of legislation. That requirement is not found in the Constitution; it’s because of the filibuster, a centuries-old parliamentary tool that has been transformed into a weapon for strangling functional government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/us-filibuster-senate.html
 
BidenPresident said:
Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1. The bill, a similar version of which the House passed in 2019, is a comprehensive and desperately needed set of reforms that would strengthen voting rights and election security, ban partisan gerrymandering, reduce big money in politics and establish ethics codes for Supreme Court justices, the president and other executive branch officials.

The legislation has the support of at least 50 senators, plus the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden is on board and ready to sign it. So what’s the problem? Majority support in the Senate isn’t enough. In the upper chamber, a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass even the most middling piece of legislation. That requirement is not found in the Constitution; it’s because of the filibuster, a centuries-old parliamentary tool that has been transformed into a weapon for strangling functional government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/us-filibuster-senate.html
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I oppose getting rid of anything you fucking cancer cells want to get rid of because I know it has nothing to do with democracy it has ONLY to do what's best for democrats. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
 
Yakuda said:
I oppose getting rid of anything you fucking cancer cells want to get rid of because I know it has nothing to do with democracy it has ONLY to do what's best for democrats. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
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shut the fuck up troll. no one wants you on this forum
 
BidenPresident said:
Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1. The bill, a similar version of which the House passed in 2019, is a comprehensive and desperately needed set of reforms that would strengthen voting rights and election security, ban partisan gerrymandering, reduce big money in politics and establish ethics codes for Supreme Court justices, the president and other executive branch officials.

The legislation has the support of at least 50 senators, plus the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden is on board and ready to sign it. So what’s the problem? Majority support in the Senate isn’t enough. In the upper chamber, a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass even the most middling piece of legislation. That requirement is not found in the Constitution; it’s because of the filibuster, a centuries-old parliamentary tool that has been transformed into a weapon for strangling functional government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/us-filibuster-senate.html
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Dumbass still thinks we are a democracy!:laugh: Take a civics class!
 
Yakuda said:
I oppose getting rid of anything you fucking cancer cells want to get rid of because I know it has nothing to do with democracy it has ONLY to do what's best for democrats. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
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More like the horse that rode her in!
 
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