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A couple of things for your consideration today.
Have you ever wondered, how did the FBI investigate accusations of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh without ever interviewing either Ford or Kavanaugh? Well, so has Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse has requested that our new Attorney General, Merrick Garland, bring his attention to just that question.
Then there’s our big bête noire around here: The Filibuster. This Jim Crow relic was a useful tool of racists, but so was Strom Thurmond, and you don’t see him around anymore. Finally, the time is now for filibuster reform. Senate Democrats have one choice: Save democracy or save the filibuster. Republicans in turn vow to save the filibuster or destroy democracy. Time is running out to use the Congressional Review Act to roll back any of Donald Trump’s rollbacks. Soon there will be no room left on the fence for even Joe Manchin.
You tune into KITM to hear liberal thinking, and it turns out that Liberal Thinking personified, aka, Rich, has recorded some ideas on how to bust the filibuster. David Waldman and Joan McCarter consider the carrots and sticks available to move things along, from tactical carrots to the nuclear stick, and glean as much as possible from history, from the ploys of Dick Nixon to the grand strategies of Gold and Dupta, to the debate of whether the Senate is a constant when it is constantly being renewed.