It looks like the Republicans are planning to go nuclear by taking away the minority right to filibuster judicial appointments.
I think we need a plan for what to do about this if it happens. I was hoping we could employ the same method used by the Texas dems in response to the Delay powergrab. But I just found that in the Senate, a quorum is just 51 senators, which obviously they can have without us.
But, can't the dems just leave the Capitol anyway if they go nuclear? I know this opens them up to attacks for not doing their "job" or whatnot. And I know the right to filibuster isn't exactly a well-known thing that's easy to go to the public with. But I don't know that we have much to lose.
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