Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and comp
Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and comp
Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and comp
again. attorneys for colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call. donald trump is disqualified today. he was disqualified on january six, 2021, when he engaged in that he. disqualified himself under our constitution. it s not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that. trump of course appealed the colorado decision, sending it to the supreme court. trump himself is not expected to attend tomorrow s arguments, which are expected to last at least 80 minutes. this is the most consequential case for a presidential election since bush v. gore, get ready to feel old, 24 years ago. and right now americans opinion of the supreme court is historically low. meanwhile and on trump s other legal cases, his attorneys say they want to get the charges against him dropped in the mar- a-lago classified documents case. in georgia the attorneys are going after fulton county d. a. fani willis. they argue she should be disqualified and trump s charges should be dismissed because she brought u
Newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and compromise, fewer bills passing, fewer amendments, getting voted on to address the policy concerns of senators and their constituents. And we see the filibuster or rather automatic threat of one as the culprit. For those of you who arent steeped in Arcane Senate rules, a allows any