Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is yet again weighing his chances of entirely abolishing the filibuster should his party win the trifecta this year. The New York Democrat has held his seat for the last quarter century, and throughout that tenure, he has waffled back and forth on whether to protect or destroy this particular upper-chamber tradition – seemingly based entirely on which side of the majority he happens to be at the time. Well, Democrats currently hold a slim 51-vote majority, and Schumer made it clear this week that if Kamala Harris wins in November, Democrats maintain the Senate lead, and if they win even a razor-thin majority in the House, the filibuster is as good as dead.
Goodbye Filibuster, Hello Progressive Profusion
Schumer told Politico he was eyeing the end of the 60-vote rule for legislation in order to pass two voting rights bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Both were introduced but stalled in the 117th Congress and again in the 118th. Should Democrats see the kind of win in November their distinguished colleague from New York looks forward to, these bills almost certainly won’t fail in 2025 – but that’s far from all he’s planning. Schumer later said Democrats would also consider using the rule change to “codify abortion rights” and pass major economic legislation.
Only two obstacles prevented Schumer from doing precisely this in 2022: Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. Both were Democrats at the time but then left the party, and neither is seeking re-election this year, meaning they can be replaced. As Schumer put it: “We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s why we couldn’t change the rules. Well, they’re both gone.”
In Remembrance
“The bottom line is this,” Senator Schumer said way back in 2003. “We are defending the Constitution, we are saying there should be some balance.” He criticized Republicans for trying to bend the rules whenever they didn’t get their way. “What my colleagues have done is taken the result they want … and then come up with an argument that all of a sudden filibusters are bad,” he argued. […]
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