Chuck Schumer’s Own Words Prove His Filibuster Was Nonsense
Paul Crookston April 7, 2017 5:55 PM @P_Crookston
As he took his last stand against confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court yesterday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer defended Democrats’ filibuster on remarkably shaky grounds: When our body politics is veering too far to the right or to the left, the answer is not to dismantle the guardrails and go over the cliff, but to turn the wheel back toward the middle. The answer is not to undo the guardrails, the rules, it’s to steer back to the middle and get a more mainstream candidate. With respect to the Supreme Court, the 60-vote threshold operates as a guardrail against judicial extremism.
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