So Biden says he wants to preserve the filibuster. He may be posturing so that Mitch basically forces Schumer to end the filibuster. If he can. Perhaps it has to be made obvious to a couple of Democratic Senators that the filibuster will have the same effect a republican majority would have before Schumer holds a vote to end the filibuster....
"Defenders of the filibuster argue that it prevents a majority of lawmakers from ignoring the minority. They often claim it preserves the Senate’s comity and forces senators to act in a bipartisan fashion, which is supposedly good on its own merits. In functional terms, the filibuster allows a minority of senators to effectively veto what the majority of their colleagues would like to do—a bizarre inversion of how legislatures are supposed to function. In certain cases, like constitutional amendments or impeachment trials, the Senate is required to reach a two-thirds majority to act. But day-to-day business isn’t supposed to be governed by the whims of the party that didn’t win the most seats."
Interesting that the filibuster is a vestige of slavery and the primary tool used to stop civil rights expansion for a hundred years....
https://newrepublic.com/article/161033/ ... ster-biden
"Defenders of the filibuster argue that it prevents a majority of lawmakers from ignoring the minority. They often claim it preserves the Senate’s comity and forces senators to act in a bipartisan fashion, which is supposedly good on its own merits. In functional terms, the filibuster allows a minority of senators to effectively veto what the majority of their colleagues would like to do—a bizarre inversion of how legislatures are supposed to function. In certain cases, like constitutional amendments or impeachment trials, the Senate is required to reach a two-thirds majority to act. But day-to-day business isn’t supposed to be governed by the whims of the party that didn’t win the most seats."
Interesting that the filibuster is a vestige of slavery and the primary tool used to stop civil rights expansion for a hundred years....
https://newrepublic.com/article/161033/ ... ster-biden