There’s No Half-Way to End the Filibuster

Jonathan Bernstein: “Forcing senators to give marathon orations to carry out a filibuster is a bad idea, but it looks like it may be a bad idea whose time has come, with President Joe Biden endorsing the ‘talking filibuster’ in an ABC News interview. Why? Because most Democrats want to eliminate the filibuster, and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia — the most moderate Democrat in the Senate — has said that while he absolutely won’t vote to eliminate the filibuster, he’s open to going the ‘talking’ route.”

“And so that’s what’s we’re going to talk about. Because what happens with Senate procedures over the next few months is going to determine whether Democrats pass a lot of their remaining agenda or very little of it.”

Washington Post: The talking filibuster — and its limits.