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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVoting rights filibuster is coming
This shit is coordinated as a mofo....love it! They spent the year letting these crooks bluster and feel like they could say anything and feel like they have total control with no repercussions..we have a plan folks..its coming this year.
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Voting rights filibuster is coming (Original Post)
Prince99
Jan 2022
OP
You need 10, so even if (they likely will not) Concerned Collins and Murkowski voted for cloture, we
Celerity
Jan 2022
#3
If the Dems do a carve out the gqp can't filibuster it anymore than we could over turtle's
PortTack
Jan 2022
#4
Celerity
(43,335 posts)1. not sure I follow what you are saying
Voting rights filibuster is coming
of course the Rethugs will filibuster all the voter bills
The 100 billion dollar question is if Manchin and Sinema (especially Sinema) cave in and allow a carve-out that actually allows them to be passed.
70sEraVet
(3,495 posts)2. No Repub Senator willing to break ranks and stand up for democracy?
Celerity
(43,335 posts)3. You need 10, so even if (they likely will not) Concerned Collins and Murkowski voted for cloture, we
are still 8 short.
PortTack
(32,762 posts)4. If the Dems do a carve out the gqp can't filibuster it anymore than we could over turtle's
SCOTUS picks
Celerity
(43,335 posts)5. Obviously. The big question, as I stated, is whether Manchin and Sinema will vote for a carve-out.
My other post was assuming no carve-out.
IF no carve-out. then we need 10 Rethugs to vote for cloture. That will never happen.
IF no carve-out. then we need 10 Rethugs to vote for cloture. That will never happen.
PortTack
(32,762 posts)6. I know that...so does leader Schumer
Celerity
(43,335 posts)7. none of this answers my original question to the OP