Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) single-handedly raised the stakes of the 2024 elections on Tuesday, revealing he’d consider carving out rare exceptions to allow votes on protecting voting and abortion rights.
Schumer’s plan would move the Senate closer to getting rid of the filibuster, a longtime rule that requires 60 votes instead of a simple 50 vote majority to advance legislation.
Didn’t know I needed a thesis to have an opinion.
Evidence should be easy to find if the effect is as obvious as you suggest, no?
edit: Look, as charming as this back-and-forth is, I’d like to present evidence to the contrary. This kind of gesture doesn’t register at all with voters, and makes zero difference in their motivation to vote, because Democrats tried to codify abortion rights into federal law in 1989, 1993, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 and folks like you are still clamoring for them to “just do something”. If they open the floor for another inevitably doomed bill and do more “something”, people will still bitch and moan that they’re not doing anything, just like they always have.