And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Hi, my name's Tom Ginsburg.

Hi, my name's Tom Ginsburg and I'm a professor of law at the University of Chicago,

and I recently wrote a piece for persuasion called filibuster reform is a dangerous necessity.

And of course, what prompted this was the discussion over the

last couple of weeks about whether the Democrats should get rid of the

filibuster in order to push through their voting rights reforms to bills, including

a whole package of things to make it easier to vote and that effort of course famously failed.

But I was trying to interject something into the debate that took a slightly broader view.

And of course, traditionally, we grow up learning that the

filibuster is part of this set of minority institutions,

which help to protect American democracy.

I have changed my view on it in recent years and I've come to see it as basically a problem.

And that of course is because its use is now routine instead of being an exceptional device for really important

policy things where the minority really wanted to have a conversation it's now

being used just for political obstructionism and that calls for getting rid of it.

Of course it's found nowhere in the Constitution, it's just a Senate rule and

there's nothing democratic in any small dissents about it.

Obviously, it's got nothing new with the majority rule,

that's for sure.

There's no reason for fidelity to the Constitution

to follow it or to keep it.

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