Well, anybody from Montana that’s reading this, vote for John Tester. That’s step 1. Anybody in Ohio vote for Sherrod Brown, and anybody in Texas, please give me a hand firing Ted Cruz.
That’s the only way we don’t have to wait until at least 2026 for this, and there’s a lot of people out there that can’t afford to wait.
LordFUHard on
There needs to be a commission in Congress in charge of eliminating every vestige of Jim Crow law and derivative laws and practices.
Msmdpa on
It’s a requirement in order for the legislation to pass.
athornton79 on
Amen.
1) Codify Roe v. Wade.
2) Restore the FULL Voting Rights Act and expand it further. The court’s ruling that “racism has ended, no need for this law anymore” gave the southern states blanket permission to screw over the citizens however they wanted. Look at Georgia. Look at North Carolina. Look at pretty much every red state in the south and you’ll see evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and flat out corruption.
3) Federally ban gerrymandering in all forms. Yes, Democrats do it too, it doesn’t matter. Remove it for BOTH sides. Make districts be drawn purely along geographical and population grounds. Voting maps should NOT look like a jig-saw puzzle from the worst nightmares of Escher.
4) Mandate the size of the Supreme Court to be in line with the number of districts they oversee. Currently that is 13. So let’s make the Supreme Court hold 13 Justices. Further, tie all government employment to the federal retirement age. Government wants to say 67 is the retirement age? Then ALL members of government must retire at that age – at least from federal employment. That includes Senators, House Reps AND Supreme Court Judges. Allow elected officials to complete their current term if they are in an elected position, but appointed ones should be made to retire within a reasonable grace period. Hell, give them an extra year or two – FIVE even – but no more 70+ year olds hanging onto positions of power for pure ego.
5) Finally.. make Election Day a federal holiday. Mandate nationally same-day registration for all US Citizens. If you can legally vote, you should be able to vote without jumping through a dozen damned hoops designed to limit WHO can vote. Looking back at #2 for this one!
Every single one of these things needs to be done and the majority of the nation would agree. But the GOP would rather burn the nation to ashes than consider even ONE of them as acceptable. So yes, eliminate the filibuster and get shit done!
tweakydragon on
This is fantastic and we need to clear the jammed legislative process.
However in this instance with Roe, I think some in the GOP are salivating at the idea of Roe being codified at the federal level.
They absolutely will use it as a vehicle to get a case to the SCOTUS that bestows “full rights” to a fertilized embryo, and make abortion illegal nation wide as a civil rights violation.
This must come with additional SCOTUS judges or it is all for show.
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/harris-filibuster-abortion-trump-2024) reduced by 62%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Vice President Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio that she supports eliminating the Senate filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade.
> Zoom in: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled last month that he'd consider eliminating the filibuster on votes aimed at protecting abortion access if Democrats keep the majority.
> Flashback: Biden, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, said that he supported changing the Senate's filibuster rules to enable Congress to pass a federal law codifying Roe.
Please end the fucking filibuster. Republicans won’t hesitate for one second at this point.
Mother_Knows_Best-22 on
Filibuster rules must be changed at the very least. Just stating “I’m filibustering that…” should not be acceptable. If you’re going to filibuster, stand in the chamber [for hours / days if necessary] and explain *why* you are against it.
rebuildingsince64 on
Needs to happen, if we can’t overturn Electoral College BS since the founding fathers “put it there for a reason” might as well get rid of the fake filibuster bullshit that they never intended of having.
LLcoolbeans77 on
Don’t forget Supreme Court reform
BionicPlutonic on
rename it the fetusbuster
Hglucky13 on
Genuine question (because I don’t understand a lot of the details): what would stop the GOP from suing to stop it like they’ve been doing with debt forgiveness?
DumbAnxiousLesbian on
Use it to pass the voting rights act and it’ll be easier to pass all kinds of other legislation like abortion rights.
V-r1taS on
These are the types of unforced errors that really need to be avoided if you are the Harris-Walz campaign. Ending the filibuster is an insane idea given the razor tight margins in our current politics. No one left of center appears to be thinking about Trump’s legislative agenda when he only needs 51 votes to enact his despotic vision of the world. It was an absurd miscalculation to put Manchin in this situation and send an open invitation to others to embrace this line of short-term thinking.
HurinGaldorson on
Let’s also get rid of it to fix GOP attempts to prevent people from voting. And to make SCOTUS more reflective of the country in general, and bound by a legally-enforceable code of ethics. And to remove the president’s ‘immunity’ that the court created out of thin air.
On second thought, let’s just get rid of the filibuster in general.
Gamebird8 on
I mean, don’t stop there…. just go ham…. actually do the work for the American people
Artistic-Cannibalism on
Excellent. The Filibuster has down far more harm than good.
amus on
Who cares? She has nothing to do with it.
She can cheer from the sidelines all she wants.
geekstone on
Needs to be an amendment so the Supreme Court can’t strike it down.
naththegrath10 on
Just end the filibuster all together. I promise you republicans will the second it benefits them. Hell we already have Budget reconciliation which let’s corporations get everything they want without the filibuster
DeafSapper on
Oh hell yeah. Let’s do this.
Ficusbreakthrough on
If it took ending RvW to FINALLY get rid of the filibuster, well that’s incredible and we should memorialize the women who died having been denied healthcare that paid the ultimate price for this to happen.
Toyboyronnie on
I’m unclear as to how the filibuster is a bedrock of democracy. The uniform assignment of senators to states means that less popular states already have a mechanism to amplify their views. What does the filibuster add other than the ability for a minority of states to control the rest of government.
Eye_foran_Eye on
I want the filibuster changed back to a physical filibuster. That would change SO much.
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Well, anybody from Montana that’s reading this, vote for John Tester. That’s step 1. Anybody in Ohio vote for Sherrod Brown, and anybody in Texas, please give me a hand firing Ted Cruz.
That’s the only way we don’t have to wait until at least 2026 for this, and there’s a lot of people out there that can’t afford to wait.
There needs to be a commission in Congress in charge of eliminating every vestige of Jim Crow law and derivative laws and practices.
It’s a requirement in order for the legislation to pass.
Amen.
1) Codify Roe v. Wade.
2) Restore the FULL Voting Rights Act and expand it further. The court’s ruling that “racism has ended, no need for this law anymore” gave the southern states blanket permission to screw over the citizens however they wanted. Look at Georgia. Look at North Carolina. Look at pretty much every red state in the south and you’ll see evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and flat out corruption.
3) Federally ban gerrymandering in all forms. Yes, Democrats do it too, it doesn’t matter. Remove it for BOTH sides. Make districts be drawn purely along geographical and population grounds. Voting maps should NOT look like a jig-saw puzzle from the worst nightmares of Escher.
4) Mandate the size of the Supreme Court to be in line with the number of districts they oversee. Currently that is 13. So let’s make the Supreme Court hold 13 Justices. Further, tie all government employment to the federal retirement age. Government wants to say 67 is the retirement age? Then ALL members of government must retire at that age – at least from federal employment. That includes Senators, House Reps AND Supreme Court Judges. Allow elected officials to complete their current term if they are in an elected position, but appointed ones should be made to retire within a reasonable grace period. Hell, give them an extra year or two – FIVE even – but no more 70+ year olds hanging onto positions of power for pure ego.
5) Finally.. make Election Day a federal holiday. Mandate nationally same-day registration for all US Citizens. If you can legally vote, you should be able to vote without jumping through a dozen damned hoops designed to limit WHO can vote. Looking back at #2 for this one!
Every single one of these things needs to be done and the majority of the nation would agree. But the GOP would rather burn the nation to ashes than consider even ONE of them as acceptable. So yes, eliminate the filibuster and get shit done!
This is fantastic and we need to clear the jammed legislative process.
However in this instance with Roe, I think some in the GOP are salivating at the idea of Roe being codified at the federal level.
They absolutely will use it as a vehicle to get a case to the SCOTUS that bestows “full rights” to a fertilized embryo, and make abortion illegal nation wide as a civil rights violation.
This must come with additional SCOTUS judges or it is all for show.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/harris-filibuster-abortion-trump-2024) reduced by 62%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Vice President Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio that she supports eliminating the Senate filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade.
> Zoom in: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled last month that he'd consider eliminating the filibuster on votes aimed at protecting abortion access if Democrats keep the majority.
> Flashback: Biden, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, said that he supported changing the Senate's filibuster rules to enable Congress to pass a federal law codifying Roe.
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Please end the fucking filibuster. Republicans won’t hesitate for one second at this point.
Filibuster rules must be changed at the very least. Just stating “I’m filibustering that…” should not be acceptable. If you’re going to filibuster, stand in the chamber [for hours / days if necessary] and explain *why* you are against it.
Needs to happen, if we can’t overturn Electoral College BS since the founding fathers “put it there for a reason” might as well get rid of the fake filibuster bullshit that they never intended of having.
Don’t forget Supreme Court reform
rename it the fetusbuster
Genuine question (because I don’t understand a lot of the details): what would stop the GOP from suing to stop it like they’ve been doing with debt forgiveness?
Use it to pass the voting rights act and it’ll be easier to pass all kinds of other legislation like abortion rights.
These are the types of unforced errors that really need to be avoided if you are the Harris-Walz campaign. Ending the filibuster is an insane idea given the razor tight margins in our current politics. No one left of center appears to be thinking about Trump’s legislative agenda when he only needs 51 votes to enact his despotic vision of the world. It was an absurd miscalculation to put Manchin in this situation and send an open invitation to others to embrace this line of short-term thinking.
Let’s also get rid of it to fix GOP attempts to prevent people from voting. And to make SCOTUS more reflective of the country in general, and bound by a legally-enforceable code of ethics. And to remove the president’s ‘immunity’ that the court created out of thin air.
On second thought, let’s just get rid of the filibuster in general.
I mean, don’t stop there…. just go ham…. actually do the work for the American people
Excellent. The Filibuster has down far more harm than good.
Who cares? She has nothing to do with it.
She can cheer from the sidelines all she wants.
Needs to be an amendment so the Supreme Court can’t strike it down.
Just end the filibuster all together. I promise you republicans will the second it benefits them. Hell we already have Budget reconciliation which let’s corporations get everything they want without the filibuster
Oh hell yeah. Let’s do this.
If it took ending RvW to FINALLY get rid of the filibuster, well that’s incredible and we should memorialize the women who died having been denied healthcare that paid the ultimate price for this to happen.
I’m unclear as to how the filibuster is a bedrock of democracy. The uniform assignment of senators to states means that less popular states already have a mechanism to amplify their views. What does the filibuster add other than the ability for a minority of states to control the rest of government.
I want the filibuster changed back to a physical filibuster. That would change SO much.