The anti-filibuster effort is winning
The filibuster took another small-but-significant step last week toward what some experts believe is its inevitable demise. President Biden, in a CNN town hall, expressed an openness to getting rid of it for narrow issues — specifically the debt ceiling and voting rights.
The evidence is pretty clear that the anti-filibuster forces are increasingly winning the argument within the Democratic Party. More and more, the question seems to be when the filibuster will be significantly scaled back or eliminated — and who will be in charge when it happens.
The comments from Biden were significant, because, as a presidential candidate in 2020, he rejected the idea of nixing the filibuster. Then earlier this year, he began talking about reforming it to make it more difficult for the would-be filibusterers. Then a few weeks ago, he floated eliminating it for the debt ceiling. Now he’s talking about doing it for a specific issue area — voting rights, on which Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill last week — that could logically presage a rather swift further rolling-back of the filibuster.
Not that the filibuster is going anywhere imminently. After all, it’s hardly up to Biden. Senate Democrats would need all 50 of their votes to make it happen, and a significant number of Democratic senators (beyond just Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema) aren’t on board.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-anti-filibuster-effort-is-winning/ar-AAPY74J
I don't know if it's winning but it's the more popular stance.
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