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“They have not gone so far as to say, ‘We endorse your bill.’ They have said that your bills are precisely aligned with what we are talking about,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse toldlast week when asked if the Harris campaign has voiced its support for legislation he proposed last October that would dramatically overhaul the high court.
The proposal, however, was light on details and did not mention whether the reforms would be sought through congressional legislation, a constitutional amendment or executive action. “To get around the filibuster, we’re going to have to have a process that allows very substantial debate from the Senate minority,” Whitehouse said at an event hosted by the Brennan Center for Justice, according to The Dispatch. “We are not going to want to give the Republicans multiple stalls, multiple filibusters on this.”
Whitehouse predicted that a bill of that magnitude would have “spectacular tailwinds behind it” in Congress.
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