A growing number of House and Senate Democrats are calling on the new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to reject Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) request to respect the decades-old filibuster rule, which protects the Senate from partisan control of the majority.
“Minority rights on legislation are key to the Senate. President [Joe] Biden spent decades defending them. More than two dozen Senate Democrats backed them just four years ago,” McConnell wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.
