A Post-Filibuster World Would Be a Nightmare for Progressives
Democrats eager to gut the Senate's 60-vote threshold should remember how it saved them in the past.
Sen. Bernie Sanders in Dec. 2020, when he was filibustering the National Defense Authorization Act, calling for a Senate vote on giving Americans $2,000 in direct payments for Covid-19 relief. | Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
By RONALD WEICH
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Ronald Weich is dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law. He served as chief counsel to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Harry Reid, and as an assistant attorney general from 2009 to 2012.
With astonishing speed, it’s become conventional wisdom on the left that the filibuster must go.