Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order
Start with this: it is not part of the constitutional order.
It is, broadly speaking just any device used to delay or prevent an anticipated decision in a legislature.
In the US senate, it is entirely an artifact of senate rules, and on the whole an inadvertent one.
And over its history it has mostly been used to defend "states rights" and associated causes.
I have argued it is in fact unconstitutional, and still think so and think we would be better off without it.
Individual politicians, parties, and voters will just need to take more responsibility for what they say and what they choose.
This is McConnell preparing for losing the senate to the Dems in 2020 and facing the very real possibility - not nearly real enough, in my view - that the Dems will junk the filibuster and steamroll the Republican minority who have so often in recent years flouted established and more amicable Washington ways in order to screw over Democrats.
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