Kill Switch (Devil's Night Book 3)

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The plan for reform is simple: Restore the requirement for actual debate to replace the anonymous hold. This gives the minority every opportunity to state its case. Then amend the rules to provide a cloture vote after a certain number of days, using a simple majority. Though defenders cite tradition, the filibuster is not authorized by the COTUS. Instead, it evolved over two centuries into the tool it is today. One constant is that the filibuster is primarily weilded by white conservatives. Jentleson puts it this way:

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling

In the twenty-first century, Senate Republicans have represented a minority of the population every year, despite holding as many as fifty-five seats, as they did from 2005 to 2006At first, all I can make out is gold. The golden glow of the golden lamp shining onto the golden desk set. But then I shift to the left, my pulse hammering in my chest, as I see Madame’s husband, Mr. Torrance, cross into my view from behind his desk. He stands, breathing hard with his jaw set, as he looks down at whoever is on the other side. In the European Union, most types of machinery are required to be equipped with an emergency stop according to the Directive 2006/42/EC. Exceptions apply for machinery in which an emergency stop would not lessen the risk as well as for portable hand-held/hand-guided machinery. Madison's vision of majority rule was undermined in his lifetime: In 1834, less than two years before he passed away at his home in Montpelier, Virginia, Madison engaged the topic once more, writing, “We must recur to the monitory reflection that no Government of human device, and human administration can be perfect; that that which is the least imperfect is therefore the best.” The “abuses of all other governments have led to the preference of Republican Government,” as “the best of all governments because the least imperfect.” Madison concluded, “ The vital principle of Republican Government is the lex majoris partis, the will of the majority.” [author's italics]

BOOK REVIEW: Kill Switch - Natasha is a Book Junkie

This is the book that changed my view of the filibuster. I had seen it as an obstructionist tool wielded by both sides, one that could prove problematic but was overall not a necessary talking point. This book, which proposes an end to the filibuster and numerous other Senate reforms, puts forward a case based on history and facts of why we must fix the Senate now.I take off down the small slope and toward the maze, stopping only briefly at the entrance and flashing my gaze to both of the hedges on either side. The path is only visible for several more feet before I’m forced to make a turn, and I didn’t see where they went. What if I get lost? In 1975, in response to a marathon series of filibusters by Senator James Allen—the segregationist Democrat who had taught Helms how to filibuster—reformers lowered the cloture threshold from two-thirds to three-fifths, or the sixty votes I inch down and then up, trying to see around the edge of the door, but I can’t see the other person. Madame and Mr. Torrance have a son. I rarely see him, though. He’s my sister’s age but goes to Catholic school. Jentleson makes a strong case that the Framers intended majority rule to prevail in the Senate, with a few explicit exceptions, such as the two-thirds vote to convict on impeachment. Adam Jentleson explains in Kill Switch how the use of the filibuster has evolved to paralyze the legislative process in the Senate. The filibuster in principle is not the problem; it is the use of the filibuster as an obstruction tactic and the supermajority required by Rule 22 to approve cloture that prevents legislation from moving forward.