Lawfare Archive: Adam Jentleson and Molly Reynolds on Getting Rid of the Senate Filibuster
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
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From August 14, 2020: On July 30, former President Barack Obama, speaking at the funeral of Congressman John Lewis, threw his weight behind ending the Senate filibuster if necessary to pursue a voting rights agenda. His comments brought to the forefront a debate that has been simmering for years within the Democratic party. Margaret Taylor spoke with Adam Jentleson, who served as deputy chief of staff to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid during the Obama administration, and Brookings senior fellow Molly Reynolds, about the history of the filibuster, how it actually works and what the consequences could be if a Democratic-controlled Senate actually got rid of it.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Katherine Pompilio with an episode from the LawFair Archive for January 16, 2022. |
| 0:46.5 | Earlier in the week, President Biden gave a speech in Atlanta, calling on Democrats to |
| 0:50.2 | eliminate the 60 vote threshold required and a filibuster in the Senate, specifically |
| 0:54.7 | on voting rights legislation. |
| 0:57.0 | Changes to the filibuster vote threshold would block the potential for filibusters on voting |
| 1:00.5 | rights laws. |
| 1:02.2 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from August 2020, in which Margaret |
| 1:07.1 | Taylor, Adam Jentelson, who served as deputy chief of staff to Senate Democratic leader |
| 1:11.6 | Harry Reid during the Obama administration, and Brookings senior fellow Molly Reynolds, |
| 1:16.4 | discussed the history of the filibuster, how it actually works, and what the consequences |
| 1:20.9 | could be if a Democratic controlled Senate actually got rid of it. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Margaret Taylor and this is the LawFair podcast, August 14, 2020. |
| 1:38.1 | On July 30, former president Barack Obama, speaking at the funeral of Congressman John |
| 1:42.8 | Lewis, threw his weight behind ending the Senate filibuster, if necessary, to pursue |
| 1:47.8 | voting rights agenda. |
| 1:49.8 | These comments brought to the forefront a debate that has been simmering for years within |
| 1:53.7 | the Democratic Party. |
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