“As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22, ‘To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser.’ [The Founding Fathers] knew such built-in obstruction could doom a republic.”

The Case Against the Filibuster The procedural maneuver, long used by Senate minorities to block civil rights legislation, is now poised to stop democracy reforms supported by broad majorities. If the Senate is to be responsive to the popular will, the filibuster must go.

Stacey Abrams: It’s time to make an exception to the filibuster rule Stacey Abrams writes that nothing is more essential to the durability of our democracy than the ability to vote. Protection of that right has only one champion empowered to make it so -- the US Congress. The House has spoken. Now, she says, the Senate must lead.
Published on March 17, 2021 13:28