{"id":548403,"date":"2021-06-01T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548403"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:50:27","slug":"bitter-fight-over-filibuster-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bitter-fight-over-filibuster-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Fight Over Filibuster Looms"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fbitter-fight-over-filibuster-looms%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=548403&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\/2021\/06\/GetFile-31.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrats are getting set for what could be a bitter battle with Republicans over the fate of the filibuster as they face mounting pressure to get rid of it, reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/556055-democrats-set-for-filibuster-brawl-amid-escalating-tensions?rl=1\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have invoked &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221;\u00a0as a means to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/schumer-elections-june-bill\/2021\/05\/28\/id\/1023146\/\">discredit the filibuster<\/a>, a tactic that\u00a0allows endless debate\u00a0to stall legislation\u00a0first enshrined in Senate rules in 1917. Prior to that, the Senate had no rules to end debate, and the chamber installed a 67-vote threshold to create one. That was reduced to 60 in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Democrats are driving toward a tipping point on what to do about the procedural hurdle, according to the Hill.<\/p>\n<p>A number of high-profile measures are set to be addressed by Democrats in June, but already appear blocked by the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to force a vote\u00a0on a sweeping bill to overhaul elections.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the New York lawmaker\u00a0could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/schumer-elections-june-bill\/2021\/05\/28\/id\/1023146\/\">setting the stage<\/a> for a battle over the filibuster, according to\u00a0The Hill. The bill is called the For the People Act\u00a0and is also known as S.1 and H.R.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last week of the June work period, the Senate will vote on S.1, the For the People Act, legislation that is essential to defending our democracy, reducing the influence of dark money and powerful special interests, and stopping the wave of Republican voter suppression happening in the states across the country in service of\u00a0<span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">President [Donald]\u00a0Trump\u2019s Big Lie,&#8221; Schumer said in a letter to the Democrats\u2019 caucus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the bill has been a target of\u00a0outspoken critics. And The Hill pointed out that no GOP senators have voiced support for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans used their first filibuster under President Joe Biden to stop a bill\u00a0which would have created a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The move just increased frustration from Democratic senators and progressives and stepped-up calls to kill the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should not perpetuate McConnell&#8217;s bastardization of the Senate filibuster,\u201d Sen.\u00a0<span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Michael Bennet, D-Colo. told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1398417304778588161\">MSNBC<\/a>, referring to Senate Minority Leader\u00a0<\/span><span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A coalition of 57 progressive groups in a joint statement said the\u00a0filibuster &#8220;must be eliminated as a weapon that a minority of senators can wield to veto popular democracy-protecting bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/filibuster-senate-midtermraces\/2021\/05\/03\/id\/1019909\/\">&#8220;abolish the filibuster&#8221;<\/a> movement has gained momentum in recent years as members of both parties find it difficult to reach a consensus on their priorities, especially with the filibuster\u2019s 60-vote threshold required to pass bills through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Republicans appear confident that Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., won\u2019t support an end to the filibuster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve been very firm in their defense of the legislative filibuster for obvious reasons,\u201d said Sen.\u00a0<span data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">John Thune, R-S.D. \u201cI talk to both of them a lot, and I don\u2019t see that happening. I think they\u2019re committed to that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are getting set for what could be a bitter battle with Republicans over the fate of the filibuster as they face mounting pressure to get rid of it, reports\u00a0The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278799,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-31.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Bitter Fight Over Filibuster Looms","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-31.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Bitter Fight Over Filibuster Looms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548403","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}