Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything possible to save the filibuster now that Republicans have lost control of the upper chamber. This rule allows senators to keep speaking on the floor to delay or block legislation that has majority support. The only way to stop a filibuster is for a certain number of senators to vote to invoke "cloture," which today requires a supermajority of 60 votes a high threshold that is rarely.
Republicans are grappling with what to do about Trump, and the disturbing new landscape in which political violence and rule breaking are tolerated, writes Scott Jennings. 'But it exists as part of our reality, so we must deal honestly with it. The second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump will be the first true reckoning on the question of what our political class intends to do about it.'