Requiem for the Filibuster

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Many of us have been wondering for literally years whether the Harry Reid would ever pull the trigger and rein in or end the filibuster. He finally did. In our second TPMPrime Longform (sub req), TPM’s Sahil Kapur gives a detailed history of the filibuster’s demise and what finally brought Reid, who’d hedged so many times, over to the side of the reformers.

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