The Filibuster Must Go
Just passed by the House, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act is now off to the Senate.
The stakes for our democracy—and economy—could not be higher. And the 52 senators still defending the filibuster are endangering both.
As Roosevelt’s Shahrzad Shams and Trisha Maharaj argue, some of those senators are directly contradicting their previous filibuster stances.
“Any senator who believed the filibuster should not be allowed to undermine our economy when it came to the debt ceiling should apply that same logic not only to protect voting rights but to counter all anti-democratic policies,” they write.
“They should not allow this archaic procedural tool to continue obstructing a truly multiracial democracy."
Read on.
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