Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
Executive orders cannot legally contradict the existing laws. Trump uses them to pretend he rules by decree, but most of the time, everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says “yeah, whatever, Cheetoh-pedo.” And when EOs have gone to court, they’ve been declared null and void.
Also, filibusters have been uses as long as the Republic has existed, and the modern cloture rule dates back to around the end of WW1, so it was not put in to prevent the New Deal.
Correction, the current “filibuster” rule (not law) is no longer a filibuster, they just “call” it a filibuster, but don’t actually perform it. So, it’s not even a filibuster as it was known for many decades, but an out-in-the-open parlor trick.
Cloture rules (not law) were changed after the ND, in 1975, look it up. Your statement that “the modern cloture rule dates back to the end of WW1” is blatantly false, per the senate. I think that they know their own rules pretty well.
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm
They follow the cloture rule when they really don’t want to pass something, which is most of the time. See the first minimum wage vote under Biden for example, oops, we need 60 votes! Coincidentally, the New Deal would not have passed, as they only had 59 votes.
If they want to pass a law for real, they then retract their rule (not law), and then they only need a simple majority. They have done this many times, around 200 last time I checked.
If Biden and friends had wanted to actually raise minimum wage, they would have made an exception to their senate cloture rules (not law), and they would have only needed a simple majority to pass it (they could have done this with Harris being the deciding vote).
They did not.