The current filibuster rules require a supermajority in the Senate to pass any legislation. Governance by supermajority vote, albeit in a different context, is condemned in the Federalist Papers. And for good reason: it foments bribery and corruption and frustrates the democratic will. Because legislation is so difficult to pass under the current filibuster rules, laws are conceived and imposed by unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state, rather than through the vote of our elected representatives in Congress. This empowers the permanent, faceless dual state at the expense of voters. Senators can surreptitiously navigate unpopular laws through administrative agencies without being accountable to their constituents, rather than being forced to take tough votes on important issues. Laws should be passed by Congress, not forced on us by the permanent governing class. The filibuster should be abolished, or at the very least amended to require actual debate to avoid cloture. Under the 2nd Trump administration, assuming Republican control of both houses of Congress, they should pick the most popular and vital law that needs passed (i.e. ending blanket immunity for vaccine manufacturers) and use it as the justification to end abhorrent, current iteration of the Senate’s filibuster rules. Restore accountability to our nation’s lawmaking. End the Senate filibuster.
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Not just ending filibuster but also end long bills. We don’t need to pass several laws at once. It would take over 600 years to read all of the US’s laws. One law at a time will do just fine under certain circumstances.
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