Dave Weigel

I guess you could try, but Sam Alito probably wouldn't like that.

Yeah.

And so it is Democrats who for their long term plans want to get rid of the filibuster or just the the opportunity cost for Republicans is not there.

Like you would get rid of it.

And then in the future, maybe they're not ambitious enough.

If Republicans said we're getting rid of the filibuster and we're going to split Texas into five red states.

That would get them something.

But they're not there because they look at the arrangement of the country and say, well, no, we the judges are going to take care of a lot of this for us.

And the Republicans who are barely resisting Trump, except for on some nominees, the tariffs, for example, the tariffs, a great example of this.

Do you need to do some legislative maneuver to stop the tariffs?

You can have a Senate vote that doesn't do anything.

And then you cross your fingers and hope the Supreme Court solves the problem for you.

So they're just not it's not in their interest to do this for Trump.

And they know that it is in Democrats interest, too.

I think with with Manchin and Sinema, it would have been tough.

But if there was no filibuster whatsoever in Biden's first term, there's not even a debate.

Should we get rid of this hallowed institution that we pretend is from the founders but isn't?

Would Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have voted against some of the stuff they voted against?

Maybe not.

If there was a 53 seat Democratic Senate majority under President even Josh Shapiro and no filibuster, could they do a public option like day one right away?