Manchin 'can't imagine' supporting change to filibuster for voting rights
By Mychael Schnell - 08/01/21 10:17 AM EDT
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Sunday said “can’t imagine” supporting a carve-out to filibuster rules to help pass voting rights legislation.
Manchin was asked a direct question about whether he could imagine supporting such a carve our during an appearance Sunay on CNN's "State of the Union."
“I can’t imagine a carve-out,” Manchin responded.
He noted that in 2013, a Democratic-majority backed a carve-out to the filibuster so that Cabinet appointees for President Obama could be confirmed. That led to more carve-outs, including for the Supreme Court.
“I was here in 2013 when it was called a carve-out, we're just going to do the cabinet for the President, and then it went into we're going to do the judges who are lifetime appointments for circuit and district," he said.
"They really want to do Supreme Court, but they didn't at that time the Democrats were in control. 2017, Mitch McConnell’s in control, comes right back in and guess what, that carve out worked to really carve us up pretty bad. Then you got the Supreme Court, okay, so there's no stopping it,” Manchin said.
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