{"id":4704,"date":"2026-03-09T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/filibuster-actually-lessens-senates-power\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:05:58","slug":"filibuster-actually-lessens-senates-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/filibuster-actually-lessens-senates-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Filibuster Actually Lessens Senate&#039;s Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/71\/711438_1_.jpeg\" \/><br \/>The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nation&#8217;s Founders intended.I&#8217;ll admit I was pushed off-kilter for a minute when one reader warned about D.C. statehood and the prospect of  &quot;two Marxist senators&quot; as a counter to my last column on ending the filibuster.Sure enough, the admission of new states by a simple majority in Congress could result in a partisan advantage for Democrats should they opt to offer statehood to the District of Columbia,&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/03\/09\/filibuster_actually_lessens_senates_power_153923.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nation&#8217;s Founders intended.I&#8217;ll admit I was pushed off-kilter for a minute when one reader warned about D.C. statehood and the prospect of &quot;two Marxist senators&quot; as a counter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}