Democrats play with filibuster fire
Voting Rights And Voter Fraud,US Senate,Politics,Filibuster,Elections,Democratic Party,Race And Racism,State Governments,Martin Luther King Jr.
Sens. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and their party fellows in the Senate are facing a dilemma. Should they blow up the legislative filibuster to pass their inaptly named Voting Rights Bill, or preserve it to defend against Republicans doing the same when they have a majority?
We have seen this play out before. In 2013, the Senate majority leader, the recently deceased Harry Reid, went nuclear to remove the 67-vote threshold for all presidential nominees except Supreme Court justices. Four years later, and right on cue Sen. Mitch McConnell, in the same role, applied the same rule to just those justices. President Donald Trump would appoint three of them with no Democrat votes, a generation victory for conservatives.
