{"id":1533588,"date":"2022-06-30T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533588"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:49:41","slug":"biden-wants-a-filibuster-carve-out-but-only-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-a-filibuster-carve-out-but-only-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Wants A Filibuster Carve-Out \u2014 But Only For Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-wants-a-filibuster-carve-out-but-only-for-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-30-at-12.08.01-PM-1024x509-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden was in Madrid today attacking American institutions. \u201cThe one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/30\/biden-blasts-scotus-for-over-right-to-privacy-blow-in-roe-v-wade-overturn\/\">said<\/a> of the <em>Dobbs<\/em> ruling, which sent the abortion issue back to the democratic process where it belongs. (Is this the first time in American history that a president has criticized a branch of his government on foreign soil?) <\/p>\n<p>Biden went on to say that he wants to \u201ccodify <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> into law,\u201d and \u201c[i]f the filibuster gets in the way \u2026 we should provide an exception to the filibuster to deal with the Supreme Court decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s become tedious to point out the shameless, unmitigated hypocrisy of the Democrats on the filibuster. Once upon a time, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4995956\/senator-joe-biden-defends-filibuster-opposes-nuclear-option\">called<\/a> the filibuster \u201cone of the pillars of American democracy,\u201d and now he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/25\/politics\/filibuster-biden-obama\/index.html\">agrees<\/a> with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/07\/barack-obama-filibuster-hypocrisy\/\">former boss<\/a> that it\u2019s a \u201crelic of the Jim Crow era.\u201d Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/06\/21\/biden-civil-segregationists-ally\/\">knows<\/a> a bit about Jim Crow, had nothing to say on the matter from 2017-2020 when Democrats deployed the filibuster more than 300 times during the Trump administration \u2014 easily a record. <\/p>\n<p>In 2017, in fact, 30 Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Bipartisan%20Preserve%20Filibuster%20Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed<\/a>\u00a0a letter written by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, defending the filibuster as an imperative tool in maintaining the \u201cdeliberative\u201d composure of the legislature. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/955092657331728384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a>\u00a0in 2018 that abolishing the filibuster \u201cwould be the end of the Senate.\u201d He was right then. And maybe that\u2019s the point. Now that his party is unable to unilaterally dictate policy, he says the filibuster\u00a0has a\u00a0\u201cdeath grip\u201d on American democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you\u2019ll notice that Biden\u2019s carve-outs only apply to his party\u2019s legislative priorities. Last year, the president also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/11\/us\/politics\/biden-filibuster-voting-rights.html\">advocated<\/a> for a filibuster carve-out so Congress could cram through a bill that would have overturned thousands of voter-integrity laws around the country and created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/03\/pelosis-h-r-1-is-an-authoritarian-outrage\/\">corrupt<\/a> national election infrastructure. That exemption was justified by the hysterical notion that asking a voter for ID, among equally rational regulations, was an assault on democracy. <\/p>\n<p>What special justification is there for creating a carve-out for codifying <em>Roe<\/em>? It is a highly divisive issue. Polls show that the idea of codifying <em>Roe<\/em> nationally isn\u2019t particularly popular. And when more voters learn that the president\u2019s preferred policy would legalize abortion through\u00a0all nine months of pregnancy\u00a0on demand for any reason, paid for by taxpayers, it will be even less popular. This is why Democrats need to circumvent legislative norms in the first place.\u00a0But since states can now, thanks to the Supreme Court, legislate their own abortion policies, there is no need for federal regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there is no such thing as a carve-out, anyway. After Harry Reid blew up that 60-vote threshold for short-term political gain in 2013, perhaps under the impression that Democrats would be running Washington for the foreseeable future, his party paid a heavy price. Today, one imagines Democrats believe that they\u2019ll either be able to demand the parties live by two sets of rules when the time comes \u2014 as they do with so many other issues \u2014 or their long-term goal is to hollow out the filibuster. <\/p>\n<p>I lean toward the latter point of view. The progressives\u2019 crusade to end the filibuster is a Constitution-eroding, radical play to nationalize politics by empowering slim and fleeting majorities to institute wide-ranging, generational policies. First, they make the mistake of believing their own press, which constantly\u00a0tells them their ideas are immensely popular. Second, they make the mistake of believing that Republicans won\u2019t have the nerve to do the same. They used to be right about that, though it\u2019s a risky proposition these days. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, just as there was no such thing as a carved judicial filibuster exemption specially crafted for Democrats, there will be no special exemptions for the legislative filibuster. In 2024, Republicans may well be in a position to repeal any new <em>Roe<\/em>-codifying law and pass an abortion ban. There is absolutely no reason for Republicans to allow Democrats to make carve-outs and not do it themselves. Back and forth it would go, with states and municipalities constantly being impelled to change their policies. Few things would be more destabilizing than allowing one party to overturn state laws and rely on centralized federal control without consensus or compromise. That is far more destabilizing than any SCOTUS ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion isn\u2019t a federal concern just as it wasn\u2019t a constitutional concern. And the filibuster, as usual, does the nation a great service.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden was in Madrid today attacking American institutions. \u201cThe one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States,\u201d the president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}