Why is leaning not allowed in a filibuster?

[D.]

Is it just so one couldn't sit forever?

what other rules are there?

[ninsp]

Because you touch yourself at night

[D.]

Shit man fuck me right

[MyOneAndOnly]

i wonder how many people think the filibuster is in the constitution. it's a part of the Senate rules. It could be ended at any time by the majority. it's barely 100 years old.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

It could be ended at any time by the majority.

unless someone filibustered

[redbreegull]

The filibuster is almost as old as the US. IIRC the Jefferson administration pushed for the Senate to do away with the ability to end a debate and bring it to vote immediately, and this is why filibuster is a thing in the first place, but it was kind of an obscure, dimly-imagined contingency that happened very rarely until the post-war civil rights era, when it became a widely known political tactic. It did not become standard operating procedure until Obama took office though.

Woodrow Wilson is who we can thank for cloture. He pushed for a change in Senate rules to work around the anti-war effort.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

unless someone filibustered

no. the majority could vote, without a supermajority, at any time and change the rules.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

no. the majority could vote, without a supermajority, at any time and change the rules.

Yes, but there's no rule that prevents someone from filibustering a change of Senate rules.

[redbreegull]

although I think you need a 3/5 majority to end debate on rule changes anyway which actually is only a difference of a 60% majority and a 66% majority.

[redbreegull]

/US politics

[Cool As Ice Cream]

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[Cool As Ice Cream]

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