Welcome to constitutionally speaking, the podcast about the United States Constitution,

Early American History and Political Philosophy.

My name is Jay Koss, and with me is my intrepid co-host, Luke,

and Luke, if last time's episode was called House Party,

this one would be filibuster, not as cool a name,

but a very popular subject seems to me, Luke,

I don't know if you've noticed this,

but it's almost as if we hear all the problems about the filibuster

only when the Democrats have the trifecta. Isn't that funny? Because, you know, the last,

the last time I remember people really complaining about the filibuster was back in 2010.

And then it got quiet for so long.

And then suddenly the filibuster is once more a threat to democracy.

Now, mind you, Luke, not democracy with a lowercase D.

Democracy with an uppercase D.

The democracy.

Yes.

It's a, yes, the democracy as in the Democrats.

But nevertheless, we are going to talk about Senate rules and procedures today, but mainly

that will involve us with the filibuster.

And hopefully you find this to be an interesting discussion.

I think you probably will not have heard, certainly some of the ideas that we have.

If you've read, Luke had a really interesting piece.

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