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Thread #169617   Message #4100469
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Apr-21 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: The New Non Voting America
Subject: RE: BS: The New Non Voting America
To get rid of the filibuster, as I understand it, all they need do is get a vote in the Senate to do that. It's not like it's in the Constitution or anything. But that can't be done because that would be prevented by means of a filibuster.

It's only in recent years that it has become anything more than on odd political oddity that came out of tfe cupboard for use by rather eccentric Senators.

If even a handful of Republican senators had any kind of respect for democracy or indeed self-respect, it would have been written off years ago. But of course that's a bit of a pipe dream in present day politics.

In principle the way to defeat these efforts to corrupt the electoral process would be for the Supreme Court to determine that they are unconstitutional, which does appear to be the case for some of them at very least - but with the present stacked Supreme Court that seems pretty unlikely.

in principle however, if the President were to recalibrate the Supreme Court by increasing it that would only need a simple majority to approve the, because a ciu0le of years ago tge Reoublicans
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