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Should the filibuster be eliminated?

By Alliance Alert

Sandy Levinson writes at Balkinization: "I argued in my previous post that Joe Biden should declare that the Senate is not a continuing body and,therefore, that it can modify its rules by a majority vote, without facing a filibuster. Does this necessarily mean that the filibuster should be abolished lock, stock, and barrel? I think this is quite literally debatable, and I see two circumstances where we might want to retain the filibuster, even if, for example, we might want to drop the number of votes required to break a filibuster from, say, 60 to 55 . . . " | Via FedSoc Blog

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).