Late Friday, the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal raised the red flag that a Senate with a Democratic majority and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Oval Office after November will dismantle the 60-vote filibuster rule that has long stymied liberal lawmakers.
As the editors noted, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been boasting that a solid Democratic majority could mean that the rule will be "a goner."
In an interview this week, the Democratic leader noted that Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have kept Democrats from even bending the rules to help pass legislation and that, after November, "Well, they’re both gone.”
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That led the WSJ editorial board to lament, "This should put a chill into Republicans, independents, moderates, and swing voters. Democrats claim they merely want to bend the filibuster to protect abortion and voting rights. Yet that would break it for good. The pressure would be immense to add other exceptions, such as to restructure the Supreme Court, make Washington, D.C., a state with two Democratic Senators, or ban state right-to-work laws."
Noting that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has indicated she is on board with what would be a ground-shifting change, the editors continued, "All of this raises the stakes for the Senate races this year. West Virginia aside, Democrats are leading now in every tossup race except for Montana. And there the incumbent, Jon Tester, is barely trailing his GOP challenger, businessman Tim Sheehy. Mr. Tester is refusing to endorse Ms. Harris to cover his progressive voting record, and Mr. Schumer will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep that seat."
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"With Mr. Trump now trailing in the presidential race, Senate control may determine how radical a Harris Presidency would be. GOP candidates can sound the alarm," they warned.
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