The strange rule that broke American politics

The filibuster started as an accident. Today he lets losers rule Congress. Become a member of the Video Lab! http://bit.ly/video-lab The US Senate is supposed to pass laws. But today it’s broken. And that was broken because of what’s called the filibuster, which has been a tradition of the Senate for over 200 years. But the filibuster was born by chance. And today, some politicians are suggesting eliminating it altogether. Further reading: * My colleague Matt Yglesias does an excellent job breaking down the 2020 Democrats’ debate over the filibuster: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/5/18241447/filibuster-reform-explained- warren-booker -sanders * Ezra Klein dispels some myths about the filibuster: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/18089312/myths-about-the-filibuster * The book “Politics of Principle? by Sarah Binder and Steven Smith of the Brookings Institution, really helped me understand the Senate filibuster: https://www.brookings.edu/book/politics-or-principle/ * The book “Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate” by Gregory Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami, places the filibuster in a broader context: https://www.amazon.com/Filibustering-Political-Obstruction-American -Politics/dp/0226449653 * Finally, this Stanford Law Review article answered some basic questions about the Senate filibuster: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article =1682&context=faculty_scholarship;The « Note: The title of this video was Previous title: How the filibuster broke the U.S. Senate Vox.com is a news site that helps you cut through the noise and understand what actually drives the events in the headlines. Visit http://www.vox.com Watch our complete video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/

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