Indeed. They want the Feds to leave the states alone, but they also want the states to be able to engage in lawsuit warfare trying to invalidate each others’ election results and the votes of their citizens in a mad litigation orgy of trying to establish minority-rules primacy over each other…like 50 naked greased men all fighting to be the one at the tail end of a buttfuck chain.
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Nope. Just enough to periodically call for a cloture vote.
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Doin’ “the Robot”!
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Under the current rule, it’s the burden of the majority to affirmatively produce 60 votes to invoke cloture and proceed to a vote on the actual legislation. The minority do not have to produce any votes. What’s under a discussion is a talking filibuster that switches the burden to the minority to produce 41 votes (2/5ths plus 1) to hold the floor and keep it going. So the majority would have to keep enough senators near the chamber to vote on cloture, but they wouldn’t even need to win the vote unless the minority can produce 41 votes for it. That’s really difficult to sustain – at some point, it’s just not worth it unless it’s something as existential as the slavery and segregation that gave birth to the filibuster.
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You might like this.
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Brilliant! (In the British sense of the word.)
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Y’all are going to make me go listen to Joe’s Garage again.
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Give them as much rope as they want, then pay their ransom demand if they get around to issuing one.
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That ransom in the form of whatever it is that they bring back to benefit their state will probably be more helpful to them being reelected than potential voter reform.
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But how sure is he that it will not pass?
He needs to realize that he can force the Republicans to vote on the merits by letting them know that if they do not do so, he will start tinkering with the filibuster. Most likely they have been telling him that they are close to agreement-- that they need this or that. If he can put this or that out there and they still refuse to vote for it, then he uses his power and asks if they still want the filibuster.
Sinema is an attention whore who is striving to establish a maverick like reputation. I don’t think she would stand alone against filibuster reform. She’s in it for as long as Manchin is.
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