Making ‘Good Trouble’: The Deliver For Voting Rights Mobilization In Phoenix (Updated)

The Arizona Republic reports, ‘A meaningless Senate rule’: MLK family and activists gather against filibuster in Phoenix: Martin Luther King III’s family and local activist organizations gathered Saturday at Eastlake Park in Phoenix to kick off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with a rally against the Senate’s filibuster rule, days after Sen. Kyrsten … Read more

Lawrence O’Donnell Rips Kyrsten Sinema: She Is Contemptuous Of Her Colleagues And Constituents

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who worked as a Senate staffer for years and has an abiding love for the institution of the Senate, didn’t hold anything back in tearing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema a new one for her performance politics speech defending the Senate filibuster rule. Rush transcript (excerpt): “I have never, never, heard a more contemptuous … Read more

Sen. Sinema Choosing Historic Legacy as an Enemy of Democracy

The Hill reports, House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown: The House passed voting rights legislation on Thursday in a way that is intended to set up a battle in the Senate over that issue as well as the filibuster. The measure passed in a 220-203 party-line vote. Senate Majority Leader Charles … Read more

A Good Brief History Of The Senate Filibuster Rule

Hat tip to Jim Small at the Arizona Mirror for this Twitter thread from Max Kennerly, a trial lawyer, who has a good brief history of the Senate filibuster rule for our GQP blog trolls and Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who clearly do not know this history. Senator Mark Kelly should also pay … Read more