filibuster
Not all that much gets done now.
The state lawmakers who fled for Washington to hold off an anti-voter bill said that Texans' voting rights "live on borrowed time" and that Congress must act.
"It was the suppression of a bill to end voter suppression," the president said.
The pressure campaign to change the Senate's filibuster rules will really ramp up now.
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"What we do or fail to do will have long-lasting and far-reaching implications for the health, viability, and vitality of the world’s greatest democracy,” Warnock said.
Democrats face a key question: Will they choose to protect the filibuster or voting rights?
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D) justified her opposition to ending the filibuster with some magical thinking: that Republicans want bipartisanship.
The Arizona Democrat argued in an op-ed that preserving the Senate minority rights is more important than passing legislation amid threats to democracy.
"Our democracy is too important to be sacrificed at the altar of archaic and anti-democratic Senate procedures such as the filibuster," the group told the senator.
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods prominently backed Sinema, but he says she now needs to support getting rid of the filibuster.