Amee Coney Barrett appearing before the Senate this week for confirmation hearings, and

it's all but sure she'll be confirmed.

More of a question of when, then, if at this point, but her inevitable confirmation and

the Republicans about face on confirming the Supreme Court just is so close to an election,

has some Democrats seriously considering measures outside conventional political norms in this

country.

We've talked about one packing the Supreme Court, but there's another you've probably

heard about ending the filibuster.

I will speak until I can no longer speak.

This is from a Senator Rand Paul filibuster back in 2013.

What are you going to just drop a drone, hellfire missile on Jane Fonda?

He spoke for 12 hours straight.

And I would go for another 12 hours to try to break strong, thermon's record, but I've

discovered that there are some limits to filibustering, and I'm going to have to go take

care of one of those in a few minutes here.

The filibuster has sort of this mythic reputation, but as Recline recently argued that it's

more of an impediment to democracy than a sacred tool.

Ezra, for those who aren't really familiar with it, what exactly is the filibuster?

You know that's actually a harder question than you might imagine.

The filibuster, the right to talk your head off, the American privilege of free speech

in its most dramatic form.

I think what people think of when the other word filibuster is a lone Senator or a group

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