Elizabeth Warren will back ending the Senate filibuster

[DonViejo]

By MJ Lee and Phil Mattingly, CNN

Updated 8:00 AM ET, Fri April 5, 2019

(CNN) - Sen. Elizabeth Warren is set to call Friday for eliminating the filibuster, publicly endorsing for the first time a drastic change to Senate rules that would allow Democrats to pass sweeping, progressive bills with only a simple majority if they controlled the Senate in the future.

The Massachusetts Democrat, who's running for president, plans to make the announcement at a conference hosted in Manhattan by the National Action Network -- a civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton. According to excerpts of her speech shared by her presidential campaign, Warren will describe the filibuster as having been used for generations as "a tool to block progress on racial justice" and will rally Democrats to join her in the cause.

"When Democrats next have power, we should be bold and clear: We're done with two sets of rules -- one for the Republicans and one for the Democrats," Warren plans to say. "And that means when Democrats have the White House again, if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster."

She is expected to reference a bill passed in the Senate last year that made lynching a federal crime, and point out that it was first introduced in 1918.

"It nearly became the law back then. It passed the House in 1922. But it got killed in the Senate -- by a filibuster. And then it got killed again. And again. And again," Warren will say. "More than 200 times. An entire century of obstruction because a small group of racists stopped the entire nation from doing what was right."

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[Omaha Steve]

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[David__77]

2. Good idea.

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[Amimnoch]

3. Good idea given that the tRumpublicons have completely disregarded it.

But, I do hate that it's going away. For just shy of 200 years it was a great checks and balances tool that aggravated and helped both parties over the period.

I'm glad it's going away given Cheetolini and McTurtle's abuses of the nuclear option, but I'd much rather see it written in as Constitutionally required.. but that pipe dream ain't gonna happen anytime in the foreseeable future.