• eek2121@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    After the election year they should kill kill the filibuster, provided (sane) democrats have a majority. Then they can spend 4 years fixing the courts, passing legislation like this, and solving gerrymandering.

    Of course, it will never happen, but one can dream.

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      1 year ago

      They can just revert the Filibuster to its original purpose. It was intended to make sure debate on a topic wasn’t cut off prematurely. This notion that a supermajority was needed to get anything done was a recent thing.

      You can keep the Filibuster if you want, but make sure it’s solely for the purpose of debating a topic. If a minority wants to Filibuster, they should continue to speak, Jimmy Stewart style. None of this “we don’t have the votes to close debate, so let’s do something else instead” that we have now. If you don’t have the votes to close debate, continue debating!