9th January 2022, 11:55 AM
(4th January 2022, 9:12 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: How to change the filibuster (if you intend to keep it):
1. They have to talk (bringing back the old rule)
2.They have to talk on the topic of the legislation under discussion. Deviating from that ends the filibuster immediately.
3. They have to speak truthfully. Any objectively untrue statement ends the filibuster immediately.
At this point, there are too many sound bites already available. Republicans ARE going to change it the next time they're in power, which is a year from now, whether democrats do it or not is immaterial at this point. So, they better just go ahead and do it on these terms.
That would be pretty disgusting behavior (and honestly not unexpected) if the republicans changed the filibuster after Kevin McCarthy threatened to burn it all down when the democrats wanted to do it.