They also remember how vehemently he and other Senate Republicans opposed Harry Reid’s 2013 reform of the filibuster. Sen. Bob Casey told me in a recent interview that he bumped into an irate Sen. John McCain in a Senate elevator after Democrats changed the filibuster in 2013 for judicial nominees.
Bob Casey was one of the 30 Democrats who signed that 2017 letter in favor of the Senate’s 60-vote threshold. Casey hails from a political dynasty in Pennsylvania — his father served as governor — and he’s considered to be a member of the Democratic Party’s moderate faction, which befits his staid disposition.that he’d had a change of heart about the filibuster. When I spoke with him in mid-April, he spoke candidly about his thinking.
The momentum in the Democratic Party may be in favor of filibuster reform, but there remain plenty of skeptics who fear the consequences, foreseen and not, in the years afterward. Chris Kofinis, a former chief of staff to Sen. Joe Manchin, says a filibuster-less Senate will turn the institution into something more like the House, whipsawing back and forth depending on which party is in the majority.
Yup and Manchin and other Dems seem fine with that. 😡
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