Government
Apr. 13, 2011
The Filibuster Rule: Past Practice Should Not Preclude Proper Process
The Senate's filibuster requirement flouts the Constitution's intention that matters be decided by majority rule.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
Another biennial opening of Congress has come and gone, with no meaningful responsive to the recurring chorus of editorial and political suggestions to the Senate that it reconsider its filibuster rule. No action has been, or will be taken in the interest of allowing majority rule to prevail in the nation's most prestigious deliberative body.
The Senate, which elects one third of its membership every two years, considers itself to be a continuing body, and its rules continue in e...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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