Flashback: Schumer Claimed Eliminating the Filibuster Would Be ‘A Doomsday for Democracy’
While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning Democrats might try to change the filibuster rules to advance voting rights legislation, a video from over a decade ago shows the New York senator warning against eliminating the procedural hurdle.
On Monday, the Nathan Brand, the Republican National Committee’s deputy communications director, 2005 video surfaced of Schumer warning against eliminating the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome and advance legislation.
“The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called the ‘cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber-stamp of dictatorship. We will not let them,” Schumer said.
He continued, “They want, because they can’t get their way on every judge, to change the rules in mid-stream. To wash away 200 years of history. They want to make this country into a banana republic where if you don’t get your way, you change rules…It will be a doomsday for democracy.” – READ MORE
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